We’ve just updated our Licensing Guides Emporium with a SQL Server 2017 Licensing Guide. It’s got all the information you’d expect, and a useful section on licensing SQL Server in containers. Find it here: http://bit.ly/MSLicensingGuides.
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SQL Server 2017 Licensing Datasheet
There’s a brand new SQL Server 2017 Licensing Datasheet to support general availability of this product on 2nd October 2017. There aren’t changes to the fundamental licensing but this datasheet is a nice summary including useful information such as the differences in SA benefits between Standard and Enterprise editions.
Find it in the Application Servers section here: http://bit.ly/MSLicensingGuides.
SQL Server 2017
Microsoft announce that SQL Server 2017 will be generally available on 2nd October 2017. The blog post announcement is here: http://bit.ly/2xDEo4E and gives you some detail on the (actually quite exciting) new features that will be part of SQL Server 2017.
However, if you’re more interested in a summary, here are the top three things to know from a licensing perspective:
- A new “Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server” allows customers to re-use existing on-premises SQL Server licences to run database-as-a-service in Azure
- R Server is renamed “Machine Learning Server for Hadoop” and is now available to all SQL Server Enterprise edition customers as an SA benefit
- It’s the first version of SQL Server to run on Windows Server, Linux and Docker, and there’s a new “SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux offer” which gives discounts off both SQL Server 2017 and the operating system to help with migrations