{"id":2564,"date":"2012-04-02T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/sql-server-2012-new-licensing\/"},"modified":"2012-04-02T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T03:01:00","slug":"sql-server-2012-new-licensing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/sql-server-2012-new-licensing\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2012: New Licensing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the commercial version of SQL Server 2012 is due to be released in April, a little posting about the changed licensing costs seems appropriate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/sql2012.jpg\" alt=\"sql2012\" width=\"484\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First, I would like to present the different editions of Microsoft SQL Server 2012.<\/p>\n<h3>Editions<\/h3>\n<p>Elder versions of SQL Server have a lot of editions like express, standard, workgroup, web, datacenter, etc.<br \/>\nFor SQL Server 2012, it&#8217;s very simple: there are just 4:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Express Edition<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">No change for this edition. It&#8217;s a limited (4 cores, 1 GB RAM) and free version for learning and small databases. However, you have new features such as FileTable, the semantic engine, and of course, localdb as explained in my previous blog <a href=\"\/sql-server-2012-express-localdb-rc0-is-available\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Standard Edition<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">No major changes for this edition. Limits\u00a0are the same as for SQL Server 2008\/R2.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Enterprise Edition<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">This edition again inherits unlimited for all points. In terms of functionality, it is the only one with AlwaysOn. It delivers all the features of the new BI edition like Power View.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Business Intelligence (BI) Edition<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">It&#8217;s really the newest edition based on Standard Edition. It&#8217;s limited to 20 cores. It supports all features of Reporting Services (SSRS), including Alerting and Power View, the functionality of Analysis Services (SSAS), the functionality of Integration Services (SSIS), and the incoming features Data Quality Services (DQS) and Master Data Management (MDS).<\/p>\n<p>But as always, there is an exception: The Web Edition is still available, but as part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/licensing\/licensing-options\/spla-program.aspx\">SPLA<\/a> (Microsoft Services Provider License Agreement) contract. This is only available for web hosting providers.<br \/>\nAnd what happens now for licenses?<\/p>\n<h3>Licensing<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Goodbye processors licensing! Welcome cores licensing!&#8221; is what I can simply say.<\/p>\n<p>With the explosion of the CPU capacity, Microsoft chose licensing per core with a minimum of\u00a04 cores (if you have 2 cores, you pay for 4&#8230;).<br \/>\nCores are counted by physical cores, not hyperthreading cores.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Microsoft offers just 2 licensing models:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Core-based: Enterprise and Standard Editions<\/li>\n<li>Server + Client Access License (CAL): Standard and Business Intelligence Editions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Only the Standard Edition has the choice between these 2 models.<\/p>\n<p><strong>License Transition<\/strong><br \/>\nLicense transition is very simple from SQL Server 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2012.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;background-color: #01078d\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">SQL Server 2008\/R2<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;background-color: #01078d\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">SQL Server 2012<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;background-color: #01078d\" rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"middle\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">Comments<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color: #01078d\" valign=\"top\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">Edition<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #01078d\" valign=\"top\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">License<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #01078d\" valign=\"top\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">Edition<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #01078d\" valign=\"top\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">License<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">Workgroup<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Server + CALs<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/arrow.png\" alt=\"arrow\" width=\"56\" height=\"14\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">Standard<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Server + CALs<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">CALs are cheaper for Workgroup<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cry\" src=\"\" alt=\"Cry\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Processors<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/arrow.png\" alt=\"arrow\" width=\"56\" height=\"14\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Core<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">Standard<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Server + CALs<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/arrow.png\" alt=\"arrow\" width=\"56\" height=\"14\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">Standard<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Server + CAL<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">No change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Processors<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/arrow.png\" alt=\"arrow\" width=\"56\" height=\"14\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Core<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">Enterprise<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Server + CALs<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/arrow.png\" alt=\"arrow\" width=\"56\" height=\"14\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">Enterprise<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Core<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">No more Server + CALs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Processors<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/arrow.png\" alt=\"arrow\" width=\"56\" height=\"14\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Core<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Datacenter<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Processors<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/arrow.png\" alt=\"arrow\" width=\"56\" height=\"14\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Enterprise<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Core<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Parallel Data Warehouse<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Processors<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/arrow.png\" alt=\"arrow\" width=\"56\" height=\"14\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Enterprise<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">Core<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: #000000 1px solid\" valign=\"top\">PDW is based on Enterprise Edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>And for virtualization?<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u00a0can reasonably say that it is a model optimized for the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very simple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A VM with core licenses, just buy a &#8220;core license &#8221; by virtual core assigned to this VM (with a minimum of 4 cores)<\/li>\n<li>A VM with a Server license and CALs, just buy\u00a0the Server License and CALs for\u00a0each\u00a0user<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>And for High\u00a0Availability?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You do not have to license SQL on the passive server. But concerning active servers, you must have a license\u00a0for each server.<br \/>\nRemember that only the Enterprise Edition has AlwaysOn functionality.<\/p>\n<p>For more detailed information about licensing, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/sqlserver\/en\/us\/get-sql-server\/licensing.aspx\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd what is the pricing?<\/p>\n<h3>Pricing<\/h3>\n<p>Note that a lot of articles on the web announce:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enterprise Edition: 6874$ per core<\/li>\n<li>Standard Edition: 1793 per core or 898$ per Server and 209$ per CAL<\/li>\n<li>Business Intelligence Edition: 8592$ per Server and 209$ per CAL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Be careful, this information comes from this <a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/4\/F\/7\/4F74E127-827E-420D-971F-53CECB6778BD\/SQL_Server_2012_Licensing_Datasheet_and_FAQ_Mar2012.docx\">Microsoft documentation<\/a> and is only a pricing for demonstrative use.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not the\u00a0final pricing &#8230; but gives you a good\u00a0idea if you want to calculate your future investment.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Some final words about MAP: MAP is Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit. The 6.5 version helps you assessing compliance and offers the ability to move to SQL Server 2012. I take this opportunity to inform you that we will present this tool in our <a href=\"index.php\/newsroom-e\/events\/event-pro-dba-lausanne-25042011\">Pro DBA event <\/a>of 25 April 2012 in Lausanne in the SQL Server 2012 migration session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach the release of version of SQL Server 2012, I think a little article about the Licencing is appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[293,49,265,54],"type_dbi":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-database-management","tag-denali","tag-microsoft","tag-sql-server-2008","tag-sql-server-2012"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SQL Server 2012: New Licensing - 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