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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released some details on SQL Server 2012 licensing prior to the product's release April 1, with pricing for some Enterprise editions expected to be higher. Final pricing calculations ...

As Microsoft phases out older Exchange Server versions, IT leaders are facing new decisions about how to stay compliant and cost-efficient. Understanding the current licensing landscape for Windows ...

Microsoft rolled out a description of its SQL Server 2012 licensing model on Thursday. Microsoft's up-and-coming relational database management system (formerly code-named "Denali") promises ...

Under Microsoft's new pricing structure, it's about to get a lot more expensive for some businesses to use SQL Server. The increased fees are mostly due to Microsoft's move from using processors to ...

The latest development of multi-core processors has opened the door to affordable performance that was only achievable before from multi-CPU machines. I gave an example recently with the 8-way ...

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 ...