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 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 ...

Microsoft SQL Server Licensing can be a headache. In fact, over 80% of SQL instances are licensed incorrectly. As a business owner or IT specialist, it can be hard to tell which configuration is ...

Under Microsoft's new pricing structure, it's about to get a lot more expensive for some businesses to use SQL Server. The increased fees are mostly due to Microsoft's move from using processors to ...

For more info on how SQL Server is licensed, check out Microsofts licensing site. Editors Note: This story was updated to include feedback from Microsoft. Check out eWEEK.coms for the latest ...

To try and make better sense of it, Microsoft does provide a SQL Server 2008 R2 licensing quick reference guide. The guide offers these frequently asked questions and answers to try and provide ...

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 ...

The forthcoming launch of SQL Server 2008 will see Microsoft focus its considerable resources on the issue of licensing, to win customers from rivals Oracle and IBM. "Our challenge, now (that ...

but I have no idea about SQL licensing in this situation. I know IIS doesn't require a CAL if you aren't doing user validation, but what about SQL Server? There is only one account (IUSR_WEBSERVER ...

But Microsoft will only charge us for each socket in its “per processor” multi-core SQL Server licensing policy. With a new quad-core processor, we only have to pay for one processor license ...