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I have a rather complicated SQL Licensing question which i am looking for a simplified answer to. My current production environment consists of a dual CPU W2K3 SQL 2000 ent. as the primary transactional server and a quad itanium W2K3 running 64bit SQL 2000 ent as a backup \ reporting server. I am currently working on a project that will expose these servers to users outside of our firewall (read only non-transactional) and our desire is not to upgrade to SQL 2005 at this time. In additon, the primary server will be accessed from 7am to 9pm and then a switch over to the backup from 9pm to 11pm as the primary will be unavilable due to maintenance. If I interpret SQL 2005 Licensing correctly we would need a per-processor liscense, either standard or enterprise depending on the features utilized. Since we are only doing log shipping from the primary to secondary server my assumption is to purchase SQL 2005 Standard per-processor licensing for both servers




Re: SQL 2005 Licensing

Jens K. Suessmeyer


To be sure, call the licensing hotline:

In common you do not need to hold a license for standby servers, but you never know what you do in addition with these boxes :-)

http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/c/a/ecafe5d1-b514-48ab-93eb-61377df9c5c2/SQLServer2005Licensingv1.1.doc


Jens K. Suessmeyer

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