Enterprises can now bring existing SQL Server licenses to Amazon RDS, making it easier to move operational data closer to AWS ...

Microsoft's new SQL Server 2012 licensing can come with some costly pitfalls, according to a licensing expert. The details were reviewed by Paul DeGroot, a founder of Pica Communications and a senior ...

If you’re licensing your virtual SQL Servers by core, you may be missing out on a significant opportunity to reduce costs. By reviewing and potentially reducing the number of CPU cores allocated to ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. SQL Server 2005 reaches its end-of-life milestone on April 12, the ...

Microsoft only just officially released SQL Server 2019 at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., but it announced some key changes to licensing a little bit earlier. Don't worry -- they're all ...

So, my client and their subcontractor(s) have found themselves in a bit of a pickle, as no one bothered to spec or price a DB for a software implementation, so now I've been handed the bag. The client ...

Hypothetically speaking you have two (2) virtualized Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard edition servers running in a VMware ESX 4.1 environment. Their are 12 virtualization hosts with 2 physical CPUs ...

The forthcoming launch of SQL Server 2008 will see Microsoft focus its considerable resources on the issue of licensing, to win customers from rivals Oracle and IBM. "Our challenge, now (that) we have ...

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