August 3, 2004 at 8:07 pm
I am looking at having a xeon dual processor SQL server. I know that if I require 2 x processor licences but if I license oer processor. However, I know that I will never have more than 70 people accessing my SQL Server at anyone time so is it worth me buying say a 75 user (allow for growth) Client license which works out cheaper than 2 processor licences? Would that work?
What is the minimum quantity of client licences can you buy? Can they be bought in blocks of say 5?
August 5, 2004 at 9:01 pm
If you are talking about SQL Server 2000 the CAL's are not sold on the basis of concurrent users. They are for either named users or named devices, so you need to purchase one CAL for each user that will access data from that server. If your users tend to share devices (shift work for example) you can go with the device route. Also, if you can't specifically identify each user or device, you will need to go with per processor licenses.
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August 5, 2004 at 9:34 pm
I prefer per processor licensing, just easier to manage. I believe they require you to license all physical processors if you go that route. If they are hyper threaded - where one chip looks like two - you only need one license per physical chip regardless how it appears to the OS.
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