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 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 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 ...

So, my client and their subcontractor(s) have found themselves in a bit of a pickle, as no one bothered to spec or price a DB for a software implementation, so now I've been handed the bag. The client ...

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 ...

Q. How does licensing work with the multi-instance feature in SQL Server 2005? A. You can run multiple instances of SQL Server 2005 on a single computer. Multiple instances are used by organizations ...

I am a techie, so I am interested in technology. I love to evaluate new features, new gadgets, new technology. I am less interested in actually paying for it, mainly because I am cheap. I am even less ...

Microsoft's newest version of its database may cost you more if you deploy it on machines with more than four physical cores in each processor. That's one of the findings of the independent analysis ...

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 ...

Independent analyst firm Directions on Microsoft recently hosted a briefing for IT planners and software managers to explain a major shift in the way Microsoft is licensing SQL Server 2012: the ...

Company says licensing is weak spot in Oracle's armory, and it hopes to use it to woo database customers to SQL Server 2008. “Our challenge, now (that) we have picked off a lot of the low-hanging ...