SQL Server 2012 Licensing

Microsoft recently released new licensing information for SQL Server 2012. To understand how SQL Server will be licensed, we first must quickly review how Microsoft has partitioned their editions of SQL Server. There will be three editions to license, Enterprise, Business Intelligence and Standard.

Enterprise
The Enterprise edition includes AlwaysOn, Columnstore, Max virtualization and the Business Intelligence capabilities.
Enterprise licenses will be core-based.

Business Intelligence
The new edition, Business Intelligence, will include Power View, Reporting, Analytics, Data Quality Services, Master Data Services and the Standard editions capabilities.
Business Intelligence licenses will be Server and CAL based.

Standard
The Standard Edition offers the basics of database services, reporting and analytics.
Standard licensing will be both core-based and Server and CAL based.

For more information, Microsoft's SQL 2012 website.

Free Ebook: Intro to Denali

The link below will take you to the place where you can download a free ebook that covers Denali, which is now called SQL Server 2012.  This book is similar to the free ebook that was available for SQL Server 2008 R2.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2011/10/11/free-ebook-introducing-microsoft-sql-server-code-name-denali-draft-preview.aspx

SQL Server 2012

Although I did not attend PASS this year, one of the announcements was the next version of SQL Server (Denali) will be called SQL Server 2012.  Like I said, I didn't make it to the summit this year, but below are some links containing recents news about SQL Server 2012.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/info_management/231900633

http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/10/sql-server-2012-microsofts-que.php

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/future-editions.aspx

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