February 2007 - Posts

• Recent Change to VM Licensing for SQL Server

  Recently, MSFT changed its licensing. Basically, if you buy Enterprise Edition fully licensed for the base server, you can run SQL Server on the VMs on that box without having to license SQL for each VM. Here is an article realting to this story. http://www.virtualization.info/2007/02/microsoft-unlocks-sql-server-2005.html Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 4:20 PM by RickHeiges | 1 Comments Filed under: VM, Licensing

• PASS Call for Abstracts ends March 2, 2007

  As many of you know, the PASS Community Summit will be held in Denver, CO from Sep 18-21. Please visit the official website, www.sqlpass.org , to submit an abstract if you wish to be considered a speaker. Hope to see you there! Share this post: email Read More... Posted Sunday, February 18, 2007 1:45 PM by RickHeiges | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Community

• SQL Server on VM

  Recently, someone asked me a question about consolidating SQL Server to VMWare. Here is my response. Microsoft has a webcast on their TechNet website that discusses SQL Server on MSFT’s virtual server. You can draw some conclusions as well that this also Read More... Posted Friday, February 16, 2007 7:25 AM by RickHeiges | 7 Comments Filed under: VM, SQL Server Performance