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 ...

Microsoft SQL Server Licensing can be a headache. In fact, over 80% of SQL instances are licensed incorrectly. As a business owner or IT specialist, it can be hard to tell which configuration is right ...

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 ...

SQL Server 2012 licensing price details are just beginning to take shape as Microsoft prepares to release the product on April 1. Final pricing calculations still await Microsoft's release of its ...

In the complex and frustrating world of virtualization licensing, Microsoft has had its ups and downs and caused its fair share of IT aggravation. Licensing Microsoft products in a physical world has ...

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 ...

Not long in the past, SQL Server licensing was an easy and straightforward process. You used to take one of a few paths to get your SQL Server licenses. The first and easiest path was to buy your SQL ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Hmmm…think back to 2005, Microsoft is marketing its plans to release a new version of Microsoft SQL Server (2005) –remember how Microsoft executives were swearing ...