The guide explains how to leverage Service Provider License Agreements (SPLAs) to different editions of Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 in a virtualized hosting environment.

Microsoft rolled much of the SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter edition licensing rights into the SQL Server 2012 Enterprise edition, so the old Datacenter edition will disappear as a top product-line ...

Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's ...

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 ...

Microsoft last week announced it will switch the licensing for next year’s Windows Server 2016 to a per-processor-core basis, a move analysts said is at least partly a grab for more revenue.

According to Microsoft’s SQL Server 2014 Virtualization Licensing Guide, administrators have two options for licensing virtualized SQL Servers. Virtual servers can be licensed on a per-core basis, in ...

According to Paul DeGroot from Directions on Microsoft, Microsoft SQL Server Product Manager Tom Rizzo has said that this is actually a good thing, since Workgroup users save about $30 per CAL ...

To license under Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise 2012 they would license it as 40 (4×10) core licenses. (See the note about “Software Assurance Implications” below).

According to Directions on Microsoft, the Enterprise edition licensing for SQL Server 2012 is priced at $6,874 per core. Business Intelligence edition licensing is priced at $8,592 per server plus ...

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) we ...

Microsoft rolled much of the SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter edition licensing rights into the SQL Server 2012 Enterprise edition, so the old Datacenter edition will disappear as a top product-line ...

Company says licensing is weak spot in Oracle's armory, and it hopes to use it to woo database customers to SQL Server 2008. Written by Colin Barker, Contributor Nov. 15, 2007, 5:24 p.m. PT ...