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Licensing In SQL Server 2008 R2

  • May 25, 2011 at 4:23 pm

    #240982

    We have purchased one per processor license for SQL Server 2008 R2 EE. Ther phyiscal server (windows 2008) has 2 (8 core each) processors. While installing SQL Server there is no option to configure number of processors and licensing type. Post installation is there a way to change/configure licensing details?

    Upon executing SELECT SERVERPROPERTY ('LicenseType') , SERVERPROPERTY ('NumLicenses') i get DISABLED and null as respective results. Some blogs indicated that there was a registry setting available in SQL 2005 but I do not see that option in SQL 2008 R2.

    I would appreciate if some one could point me in right direction with implementation of per processor licensing implementation of SQL 2008 R2 EE.

    Thank you,

    Amit

  • May 25, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    #1330021

    AFAIK, from the licensing docs, if you have 2 sockets in your server, you need two licenses. You cannot set affinity for one processor according to the Microsoft documentation.

    Page 4 - http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/get-sql-server/how-to-buy.aspx

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