For example, an 8-core general-purpose Managed Instance costs $1,472.75 per month, and the SQL Server licensing component makes up $584 of that cost, so the total cost would be $889 per month ...

There is a four-core minimum per virtual machine. As an alternative, organizations using the Business Intelligence or Standard Edition of SQL Server 2014 can use the Server + CAL licensing model, ...

Even though you intend to run SQL 2012, you can only buy licensing for the current version. However, it usually has downgrade rights so running 2012 should be no problem.

The new SQL Server 2012 licensing model is based on an organization's computing power, number of users and use of virtualization. Beyond that, the devil lurks in the details. The bottom line appears ...

Core based licensing is appropriate when customers are unable to count users/devices, have Internet/Extranet workloads or systems that integrate with external facing workloads. To license a physical ...

SQL Server Enterprise (Server/CAL) Existing SQL Server Enterprise (Server/CAL) customers may renew their SA on Server Licenses acquired under that License Model, however new Server Licenses for SQL ...

Core based licensing is appropriate when customers are unable to count users/devices, have Internet/Extranet workloads or systems that integrate with external facing workloads. To license a physical ...

You need to license all physical processors in order to run instances of SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter in an unlimited number of virtual OSEs. In this case, you will need four Datacenter licenses.

SQL Server licensing without SA confers the rights to run one VM on each core. So, instead of paying for SA on all machines, an organization could license a server with 12 cores to run 12 VMs ...

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 ...