Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's licensing ...

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'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 use SQL Server, you know there is a significant price difference between the Standard and Enterprise editions. If you have had the Enterprise version for a while, you probably bought it for ...

Review and transition multiple SQL products to pay-as-you-go licensing with a single PowerShell script. Continuously enforce pay-as-you-go licensing for one resource type with Azure Policy. Changing a ...

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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 ...

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Company says licensing is weak spot in Oracle's armory, and it hopes to use it to woo database customers to SQL Server 2008. The forthcoming launch of SQL Server 2008 will see Microsoft focus its ...