*Microsoft Software Licensing terms require a minimum of 4 cores to be licensed with the core model*
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Query and analyze your data using industry-leading performance and security.
How to License SQL Server Enterprise
Gives a more precise measurement of computing power and a more consistent metric, regardless of whether solutions are deployed on physical servers, on-premises, or in virtual/cloud environments.
- Core-based licensing is appropriate when customers are unable to count users/devices, have Internet/Extranet workloads, or have systems that integrate with external-facing workloads.
- To license a physical server—when running SQL Server in a physical OSE—all physical cores on the server must be licensed.
- A minimum of four core licenses are required for each physical processor on the server.
SQL Server Features: Standard vs. Enterprise
| SQL Server Features | Standard | Enterprise | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compute and storage | Maximum number of cores | 24 | OS Max | |
| Maximum memory utilized per instance | 128 GB | OS Max | ||
| Maximum size | 524 PB | 524 PB | ||
| Intelligence over all your data | SQL Server Big Data Clusters with Apache Spark and HDFS built into SQL Server engine | |||
| Data virtualization using PolyBase (including additional data sources like Oracle, Teradata, MongoDB, and other SQL Server databases) | ||||
| Unified AI platform to train and operationalize models with SQL Server ML Services | ||||
| Azure Machine Learning and Spark ML | ||||
| Choice of language and platform | Compatibility certification | |||
| UTF-8 Support | ||||
| Support for SQL Server Java extension | ||||
| Industry-leading performance and availability | Free DR replicas in Azure and on-premises | |||
| Intelligent Query processing: Scalar UDF inlining, table variable deferred compilation, approximate count distinct | ||||
| Intelligent Query processing features: row mode memory grant feedback, a batch mode for row store, and automatic tuning | ||||
| Automatic read-write connection re-routing | ||||
| In-Memory Database: memory-optimized tempdb | ||||
| In-Memory Database: Persistent Memory support | ||||
| Accelerated Database recovery | ||||
| Support for Kubernetes deployment | ||||
| Secure and reliable | Always Encrypted with secure enclaves | |||
| Transparent database encryption | ||||
| Data classification and auditing | ||||
| Vulnerability assessment | ||||
| Quick business insights | Azure Data Studio to manage SQL Server, including support for T-SQL using Notebooks | |||
| SQL Server Analysis Services Direct Query | ||||
Microsoft SQL Server has been one of the premier leaders in database technology for years.
Take your data further with this two-core SQL Server license with software assurance, complete with Software Assurance from Microsoft. (Note that Microsoft software licensing terms require a minimum of four cores to be licensed with the core model.) Order this two-core license here at Trusted Tech Team to take advantage of free installation support from a Microsoft Solutions Partner.
New to SQL Licensing? Check out our SQL Server licensing guide to find out the features that would benefit you and how to license.
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