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SQL 2008 Licensing & Pricing

  • November 24, 2008 at 9:36 am

    #196210

    Hi All

    We are planning on upgrading our SQL 2000 Data Warehouse to SQL 2008 and starting a scratch from the ground up.

    Currently we have OLAP and SQL running on one server, but we are now planning for 4 for the 2008 setup

    SQL

    Analysis Services

    SSIS

    Reporting Services

    I have been looking on Microsoft's website and I have found that we have to licence AS,SSIS,RS sepperatly to SQL as they reside off the main SQL Server.

    I was just wondering how does this licensing work as there is no breakdown information on split components.

    Is AS, SSIS, RS priced at the same $25k per processor? Or is there a fixed price for each? Is it done on processors or per server?

    Any information you have would be appriciated.

    Thanks

    Ant

  • November 24, 2008 at 9:46 am

    #902588

    What it means is that you will have purchase SQL Server 2008 for the server that you are installing SSAS, SSIS, SSRS on seperately from your database server. You can't purchase SSAS, SSIS, SSRS seperately, they are bundled together.

  • November 24, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    #902711

    If you want a second opinion, Lynn is correct.

  • November 25, 2008 at 1:10 am

    #902959

    So I take it this means I will have to buy the following

    SQL 2008 Enterprise 2 Processor Licence for the SQL server

    SQL 2008 Enterprise 2 Processor Licence for the SSIS server

    SQL 2008 Enterprise 2 Processor Licence for the AS server

    SQL 2008 Enterprise 2 Processor Licence for the RS server

    Totalling 8 SQL Server Enterprise Processor Licences?

  • November 25, 2008 at 5:04 am

    #903031

    That would work, but are you sure you need per-processor licenses? Do you need the enterprise edition of SQL for all of these servers?

  • November 25, 2008 at 5:59 am

    #903051

    The version will have to be enterprise due to the amount of RAM that is being installed into each machine.

    As per proc vs cals we have approx 1000 users who access our current data warehouse and as business is growing we cannot predict how many more users we will take on, hence the reason for procs.

    Ant

  • November 25, 2008 at 9:33 am

    #903252

    anthony.green (11/25/2008)

    The version will have to be enterprise due to the amount of RAM that is being installed into each machine.

    Ant

    We're looking at upgrading from 2K to 2K8 as well but I haven't seen anything in the SQL Server editions referring to the amount of RAM. Is that a Windows Server requirement or a SQL Server requirement?

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