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.

SQL Server Enterprise Edition: $7,128 per core; SQL Server Standard Edition: $1,859 per core; SQL Server Standard Edition Server Licensing: $931 plus $209 per named user client access license (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).

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SQL Server 2025 also supports DiskANN, text chunking, embedding generation, and integration with AI frameworks like LangChain, Semantic Kernel, and Entity Framework 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 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.

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target. Logging is an essential feature for any application, as it ...

In addition to the aforementioned merging of the SQL Server .NET Framework and .NET Core code bases, the engineering roadmap calls for open source assembly and a move to GitHub.