If you chose your server hardware smartly, you could buy eight CPU cores for the cost of one SQL Server license and save enough in licensing fees to pay for the new server. (See how we conducted our test.)įor earlier SQL Server versions, you bought one license per physical processor regardless of how many CPU cores it had. And Microsoft has replaced its per-CPU licensing model with a per-core model. SQL Server 2012 comes in three versions: Standard, Business Intelligence and Enterprise, with most of the new features reserved for the Enterprise Edition. And database administrators should be aware that taking full advantage of these new features will require additional network bandwidth and will impose extra burdens on IT. On the flip side, Microsoft's new licensing model will probably cost enterprises more money. Specifically, SQL Server 2012 offers Business Intelligence to help companies analyze business data, an AlwaysOn availability and uptime enhancement, Contained Databases for managing databases as a group and a quick-query tool called ColumnStore Index.
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