May 21, 2010 at 7:47 am
Hi All,
I have few questions about licensing of SQL Server. What I am trying to know is how is done at other organizations.
For a new project we have decided to go with SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition with 8 processor licensing. Before actually buying the licenses, we would like to setup a test server and start try/play/test /evaluate our databases etc..For this we have bought Developer Edition of SQL Server and a Test system is built.
Now my question is, if we would like to have individual Test, Development and Production servers, do we need to buy Enterprise Edition licenses for each of them or can we have the Test and Development Servers with Developer Edition and only for the Production Server have Enterprise Edition.
Another similar question, for a Standalone SSIS Server which has 4 processors (which we plan to build), do we need to buy additional 4 Enterprise Edition licenses (apart from those we are planning to buy) or those licenses are good to work with.
Please let me know if something is not clear..
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May 21, 2010 at 10:03 am
hi
Developer and enterprise editions are same. but we should not use developer edition on production server
Also, developer edition can be used for development/testing/demo.
Refer this site for more details
May 21, 2010 at 10:12 am
Be careful on the processors. You may have 8 processors but only 2 sockets. Licensing is based on socket.
Otherwise, developer edition can be used on any non-production machine.
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May 21, 2010 at 10:18 am
vmssanthosh (5/21/2010)
Developer and enterprise editions are same. but we should not use developer edition on production server
Also, developer edition can be used for development/testing/demo.
Refer this site for more details
http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/editions.aspx%5B/quote%5D
Hi Santhosh,
Thanks for your response..
I am aware of the Editions being same (Dev and Ent), my main concern is this how other implementations do it?
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May 21, 2010 at 10:29 am
Bru Medishetty (5/21/2010)
my main concern is this how other implementations do it?
Yes
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May 21, 2010 at 10:50 am
Thanks Jason...
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May 21, 2010 at 11:05 am
You're welcome.
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May 21, 2010 at 12:45 pm
CirquedeSQLeil (5/21/2010)
Be careful on the processors. You may have 8 processors but only 2 sockets. Licensing is based on socket.Otherwise, developer edition can be used on any non-production machine.
Be careful with developer edition - you have to purchase individual licenses for everyone connecting to that system. The licensing for developer edition is a single license per developer - not processor based.
If you have 10 developers working on that test system - you will need 10 developer licenses.
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