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25 client licenses

  • December 8, 2006 at 12:55 pm

    #174045

    I was wondering what exactly it means that it supports 25 client licenses? Which one of the following is it:

    1: connecting from 25 clients machines (remote connections) simultaneously

    2: 25 connections within the application

    3: 25 databases

    Does the same imply for SQL Server 2005?

  • December 8, 2006 at 1:25 pm

    #677035

    25 connections to the database.

    -SQLBill

  • December 8, 2006 at 2:15 pm

    #677052

    25 concurrent connections to the sql server.

     

    MohammedU
    Microsoft SQL Server MVP

  • December 10, 2006 at 1:04 am

    #677130

    Bill and Mohammed:  Wrong and wrong.

    The number of concurrent connections is not licensed in any way.

    (edit: the following link is no longer good...)

    http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/c/a/ecafe5d1-b514-48ab-93eb-61377df9c5c2/SQLServer2005Licensing.doc

    (As of the release of SQL Server 2005, MS no longer offers SQL Server 2000 licenses.  You buy SQL Server 2005 licenses which have 'downgrade rights' to SQL Server 2000.  Thus, the 2005 doc is the only reference.)

    Client licenses are either User CALs or Machine CALs.

    User CAL: The specified user may have an unlimited number of connections to an unlimited number of server-licensed SQL Servers of the same edition as the CAL (Standard, Enterprise, etc.) on the same physical network.

    Machine CAL: An unlimited number of users may have an unlimited number of connections from a single device (workstation, Pocket PC, etc.) to an unlimited number of server-licensed SQL Servers of the same edition as the CAL (Standard, Enterprise, etc.) on the same physical network.  "Single device" refers to the device the user is directly manipulating.  Buying one Machine CAL for a public web server and connecting that to the SQL Server is a licensing violation.

    Note that 25 User CALs does not mean "you may have any 25 users connected at any time".  It means you have licensed 25 specific users to connect, even if they only do it one at a time.

    A more detailed debate can be found here:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=5&messageid=258082#bm286332

    -Eddie

    Eddie Wuerch
    MCM: SQL

  • December 11, 2006 at 10:54 am

    #677269

    Thanks for the correction.

    -SQLBill

  • December 11, 2006 at 12:29 pm

    #677300

    Thanks for the correction...

    http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/default.mspx

     

    MohammedU
    Microsoft SQL Server MVP

  • May 7, 2007 at 10:50 pm

    #704825

    uh, just to explore an earlier point in this discussion, does anyone know what we would have to purchase in order to use sql 2000 enterprise?   the white paper doesn't seem to clarify if we must purchase sql 2005 standard or enterprise

    thanks

    rob

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