sql server license [closed]

Question

I look for an instance of sql server but I dont know what kind of license I need or how many user(?)

my situation : I have 15 (can going to 100) user. we will have some apps that will use the db but that will never be something big, I know that we doesnt have 100 users and never will. Only for local use. And the traffic is not excessiv (maybe if they can use the db at the same time but I dont think that will be so much problematic if we have a little slowness.)

but the program they use can have the same user (I think). (using the same db_user on each instance of a program)

* I dont know how thats work. (dbUser/concurrent)

can you help me about that.

what kind of license I should get? Probably just Standard but what kind, by user, by processor?

I need more than the express version, mostly because of database size. theres probably other reason like maybe for corrpution recovery, backup compression.

Tank you

Answer 1

Go with standard edition, Server/CAL model. The server license is around $1800, each CAL is about $150. Only buy CAL's if you actually need them.

Single CPU licence is about $5000. That model would work for you if you have 1 CPU in your server but lots of cores to actually do the work. A CPU is for the actual physical socket (unless the license model has changed again...)

An advantage of the server/cal model is that you only have to buy one cal per user, no matter how many servers you have running in your organization.

Answer 2

Licensing is "per CPU" or "Server/Cal".

• Per CPU is for any number of users
• Server/CAL requires 1 CAL per user. Not concurrent users: any user who will use SQL Server

It is all contained here in this MS PDF