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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not long in the past, SQL Server licensing was an easy and straightforward process. You used to take one of a few paths to get your SQL Server licenses. The first and easiest path was to buy your SQL ...

OK, I've been told that we want some of our data to be publicly accessible via the web. Setting it up is easy, but I have no idea about SQL licensing in this situation. I know IIS doesn't require a ...

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 ...

When I teach a SQL Server Reporting Services class, the question always comes up about licensing and scaling out your implementation in the production environment. The answer is, as always, “it ...

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 ...

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