Microsoft rolled out a description of its SQL Server 2012 licensing model on Thursday. Microsoft's up-and-coming relational database management system (formerly code-named "Denali") promises ...

Hmmm…think back to 2005, Microsoft is marketing its plans to release a new version of Microsoft SQL Server (2005) –remember how Microsoft executives were swearing ...

Microsoft is changing the pricing and SKUs for the upcoming version of SQL Server, its flagship database. The changes include deletion of some old editions, and a new way of counting compute power. In ...

Not long in the past, SQL Server licensing was an easy and straightforward process. You used to take one of a few paths to get your SQL Server licenses. The first and easiest path was to buy your SQL ...

While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft’s database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.

That’s a better value than SQL Server, to be sure – but it still costs more than a two processor license of SQL Server. Once we get to 10g Standard Edition, however, this value proposition breaks down ...

I thought I'd throw this one out there, because we're in the middle of a voluntary "audit" (as in, we called them and they got a partner involved because we KNOW our licensing is fubar'd), and some of ...

As of July 1, Microsoft introduced new licensing mobility terms into the company's volume license agreements. Microsoft's stated goal in making the changes was to enable customers to easier for ...

Microsoft rolled out a description of its SQL Server 2012 licensing model on Thursday. Microsoft's up-and-coming relational database management system (formerly code-named "Denali") promises ...

In this respect, licensing SQL Server Standard Edition on a per-CPU basis – across, say, two CPUs -- is probably your best bet. Oracle 10g Standard Edition One, on the other hand, costs $149 per named ...