Changes in Microsoft SQL Server Licensing

With the coming release of SQL Server 2012, Microsoft will change its licensing to provide customers a choice between three different options.

The first option is licensing by compute power, or core based licensing. The second one is licensing by users, based on a server license and CALs. And the last option is called Database virtualization, which is a licensing model supporting core based or user based licensing in a virtual environment.

LicenseWatch can fully support all three licensing models to help customers optimizing their Microsoft SQL Server licensing.

For more information on Microsoft’s licensing on SQL Server 2012, go visit their Licensing Overview page.

26 January, 2012