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All cores in the server must be licensed.So, if you’re running a ratio of 4 cores per physical processor the end cost for you shouldn’t change – but anything more than that and your costs will be going up. According to Microsoft, the cost for a core license will be priced at ¼ the price of a SQL Server 2008R2 processor license. However under the 2012 licensing this would now allow them to have unlimited virtuals (and since they licensed it with Microsoft Windows Datacenter edition for the operating system they are covered there as well).Ĭore based licenses will be sold in two core packs. (See the note about “Software Assurance Implications” below). To license under Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise 2012 they would license it as 40 (4x10) core licenses. To license this under Microsoft SQL Enterprise 2008R2 they licensed it with 4 processor licenses (each allowing up to 4 virtuals of either Standard or Enterprise).

They are running all of their SQL on this environment (approximately 15 virtual servers). For situations where the number of users was large or could not be counted, Processor licensing was more appropriate as it licensed the server by physical processors regardless of the number of users.įor example, one of my clients has their SQL Server environment running on a quad processor box with each processor having 10 cores.

Under the Server/CAL model the server was licensed and each user (person or device) needed a CAL. Prior to SQL Server 2012 (going back as far as SQL Server 2000), Microsoft SQL Server could be purchased as either a Server/CAL licensing model or a (physical) Processor licensing model.

Standard for Small Business (migrate to Standard)įor more information on what these editions can (and can’t) do, take a look at the edition comparison.

Web Edition (only available for hosting companies through the SPLA agreement).

Additional editions without licensing changes:.

Standard Edition – license in either server/CAL or per core model.

Business Intelligence – included in the Enterprise Edition or license separately but only as server/CAL (Client Access License).

Enterprise Edition – license only as per core model (last day to buy Enterprise Edition in Server/CAL model is with some potential exceptions for existing agreements – see “Software Assurance Implications” below).

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There has to be a way to upgrade that trial, without shelling out money to Microsoft. Why would Microsoft do such a thing if you cannot insert a key? I just do not buy what this lady is telling me.

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The trial version specifically has a place to enter in a key.

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So does anyone know of a work around for this issue? Will we need to take that server offline, uninstall the trial and install the full purchased SQL Server Enterprise Edition 2008?

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What we purchased was the entire software with the key imbedded. Our SQL Server 2008 trial server is now LIVE because we thought we could simply purchase the "key" to install. The licensing lady from Microsoft let me know that I could contact Microsoft technical support (starting out at $250.00), to see if there was an actual work around for this or not. She stated, the actual key is embedded into the software. That I must uninstall the trial version and install the full version. The information I received back from the licensing lady was that there is NO key to install for the trial version.

I contacted Microsoft and stated, look we just need the activation key. However, what we purchased appears to be the actual software that has the key imbedded. SQLSvrEnt 2008 SNGL OLP NL 1Proc (copies=2). The product description of what we purchased states: We figured that since it was a trial and requests a key, all we had to do is purchase 2 CPU keys for our server. We installed the SQL Server Enterprise Edition 2008 Trial on a server.