Microsoft rolled out a description of its SQL Server 2012 licensing model on Thursday. Microsoft's up-and-coming relational database management system (formerly code-named "Denali") promises ...

SQL Server 2012 licensing price details are just beginning to take shape as Microsoft prepares to release the product on April 1. Final pricing calculations still await Microsoft's release of its ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. SQL Server 2005 reaches its end-of-life milestone on April 12, the ...

Under Microsoft's new pricing structure, it's about to get a lot more expensive for some businesses to use SQL Server. The increased fees are mostly due to Microsoft's move from using processors to ...

Since I started talking about licensing again in my previous blog, I thought I’d follow that up with some scenarios from the Microsoft web site. Of course, Microsoft supports multiple releases of SQL ...

Microsoft's SQL Server business has hit the $5 billion mark in terms of annual revenue and is growing like gangbusters, according to CEO Satya Nadella. But licensing experts believe this stunning ...