Something about licensing SQL Server
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Hi all,
a question about licensing.
If i understood licensing of SQL Server Standard for core, if i have a server with 2 processor with 4 core for processor, i must license SQL Server for 8 cores.
But the question is: if i buy license for 4 core and install SQL Server on this server with 8 core, simply SQL Server does not use every core or i'm not legally licensed??
I MUST buy license for every core of my server??
Thank you very much
Paolo
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Check with Microsoft on that. They have phone and online support for licensing questions. Answers you get from them are official. Anything you get from us is just our own opinions, and should be confirmed with Microsoft anyway.
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paolobianchi (5/31/2016)
But the question is: if i buy license for 4 core and install SQL Server on this server with 8 core, simply SQL Server does not use every core or i'm not legally licensed??The latter
I MUST buy license for every core of my server??
If the core is visible, it must be licensed (hence you can't use processor affinity to get around the licensing requirements)
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Thanks to all.
I found on Microsoft the answer, i MUST licence all core
•To license a physical server, you must license all the cores in the server with a minimum of 4 core licenses required for each physical processor in the server.
Thank you
Paolo
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paolobianchi (6/1/2016)
Thanks to all.I found on Microsoft the answer, i MUST licence all core
•To license a physical server, you must license all the cores in the server with a minimum of 4 core licenses required for each physical processor in the server.
Thank you
Paolo
What's the link for that?
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https://www.microsoft.com/en/server-cloud/products/sql-server/purchasing.aspx and click the "Read the SQL Server 2016 Licensing datasheet" link. (or http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/D/5/FD5E5C28-6973-4273-8737-D69AA3BEA243/SQL_Server_2016_Licensing_Datasheet_EN_US.pdf, though no guarantees it won't move.)
The 2012 and 2014 licensing guides had similar wording, though they're no longer available from the MS website.
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