SQL server 2014 Core License

  • Hi everyone,

    I have purchased SQL server 2014 license, Core-based licence. Do I have to config this licence for my product OR it is included in production key?

    Nice week everyone!

  • Nothing you have to do to the installation. You've paid for your license, install the product and go to work.

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  • Well now I'm curious.

    If you paid for 8 cores but have 16, does the license key only allow SQL to map to the first 8?

    I assume it won't use all 16 and cause a license violation?

    (I only messed with licenses back in the 2008 days when it was CPU not core so I never had to pay detailed attention to that)

  • Nope. You can go and install it on a 16 core server. But, when Microsoft comes along with an audit, your company will pay one heck of a lot more money than they would have.

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • So you need to be sure to specify to only use the # of cores you licensed then, right?

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