Microsoft has clarified the more confusing elements of SQL Server licensing and extended major benefits to customers. The catch is that Software Assurance is required to take advantage of them.

If you rent SQL Server in Azure, the price of SQL Server stays the same. For Standard and Enterprise edition, respectively, the monthly price per core will remain at $73 and $274.

Microsoft breaks vow to never license by core and will now charge for server cores much like they were processors. Here's the details. Hmmm…think back to 2005, Microsoft is marketing its plans ...

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SQL Server 2025 is shaping up to be a pivotal release offering robust tools for developers and improved core database capabilities.

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target.

Microsoft is readying SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and is making .NET Core 1.0 and ASP.NET Core 1.0 generally available today, as promised.

Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core.

The barrier of entry here for these free SQL licenses can run about $17,500 per year for three years for 50 cores of SQL Server Standard, or $66,750 for 50 cores of SQL Server Enterprise.

Microsoft's Windows Server 2016, due in the third quarter of 2016, will be moving from per-processor to per-core pricing.