Microsoft only just officially released SQL Server 2019 at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., but it announced some key changes to licensing a little bit earlier. Don't worry -- they're all ...

The are looking to go with MS SQL Server 2012 Standard. So. Can someone explain to me in plain English how the licensing works? So far, I've only been able to establish that there are CAL ...

With the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (projected for first half of 2012), Microsoft is changing some recent and some long standing licensing rules. The following is based upon the ...

Besides releasing SQL Server 2022 this week, Microsoft also announced some new options for SQL Server licensing. To provide some background and history, SQL Server has had the same licensing model ...

Microsoft rolled out a description of its SQL Server 2012 licensing model on Thursday. Microsoft's up-and-coming relational database management system (formerly code-named "Denali") promises ...

And Microsoft has replaced its per-CPU licensing model with a per-core model. (See how we conducted our test.) For earlier SQL Server versions, you bought one license per physical processor ...

That’s because Microsoft now treats this as a third DR option alongside the free read replica and free passive instances already included in the SQL Server license. Even organizations that have ...

Finally, Microsoft is announcing a new SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer edition ... and test against the Standard edition without any licensing fees.