![]() (Read more about licensing changes in this article. According to Microsoft, "for SQL Server Enterprise Edition when licensed under Server + CAL, a single instance cannot use more than 20 cores." The company is currently working on enhancing its Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit to make it easier for organizations to estimate the licensing changes, according to Tom Bartlett, director of SQL Server pricing and licensing, at a SQL Server 2012 workshop event held last month. The licensing limits are 16 cores for the BI and Standard editions. For this release, the Datacenter edition was dropped many of its licensing benefits were rolled into the Enterprise edition.Īs with other products, Microsoft is changing the licensing basis from processors to cores, based on a minimum of four cores per processor. SQL Server 2012 will be available in three editions: Enterprise, Business Intelligence, and Standard. In a telephone interview, Doug Leland, general manager of Microsoft's business platform marketing group, said the "general availability" product release is set for April 1. ![]() SQL Server 2012 has reached its release-to-manufacturing milestone and is available for download and testing as an evaluation version. ![]() In results click the big radio button labelled 'Downloads' instead of the current 'All' selection. SQL Server 2012 Available for Download, Evaluation - Enter in to the search input: sql server express 2014.
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