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• Buy the first 32-bits, get the second for FREE

  I spoke at the Charlotte SQL Server User Group last night. Will Sweeny confirmed that MSFT will continue to offer the free trade-out to 64-bit licensing from 32-bit. In other words, if you upgraded your 32-bit SQL 2000 to 32-bit SQL 2005 and are considering Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:14 PM by RickHeiges | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Community, Licensing, Community, User Group Meetings, SQL 2005

• 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