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For an instance, I want to develop a payroll system for a business, Is it legal to use SQL Server Express Edition?
Yes. YES. YES!!! Totally, absolutely FREE for anyone to use in development and production.
From the relevant Microsoft web site:
Easy to get. Free to use.
Available free for both development and deployment.
Quickly build and deploy your database solution.
Backup and restore with ease.
Available with a graphical management tool, reporting capabilities, full-text search, and spatial support.
Ideal for building Web sites and apps, small scale LOB solutions or for
redistribution with ISV applications.
As found on MSDN, you can use SQL Server Express Edition in production environment but you have to consider some technical limitations:
maximum of 1 processor, up to 4 cores allowed
maximum memory utilized (per instance of SQL Server Database Engine) 1GB
maximum relational Database size 10GB
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We are having a Virtual Machine in AWS EC2 Instance type of t2.large (Windows Server 2019). Then we installed the SQL Server 2014 Evaluation edition 5 months before and used it for our web application hosted in IIS inside the VM.
Since it's going to end the evaluation period in the next 30 days, we are ready to buy the license for SQL Server 2019 Standard Edition. I have the following questions and everyone is providing different answers. So please someone provide the genuine answers.
After buying the license, can we install it in the VM as it is the same in our own windows server.
We are not using the RDS, it's just the EC2 windows instance vm only, so do we need to bring the Software Assurance.
Why we should not use our own license in the VM system. What's the reason behind that?
If we use that then will it affect the Compliance.
Please clarify.
AWS has "Bring-Your-Own-License" service which is made exactly for your case.
It seems that you do. Here they say:
Beginning October 1, 2019, on-premises licenses purchased without Software Assurance and mobility rights
can’t deployed with dedicated hosted cloud services offered by “Listed Providers.”
See https://aka.ms/outsourcerights as well
They say, you can save your money when using AMI with SQL because of flexible licensing, pricing etc. You should review the pricing, workloads and working schedule by yourself and decide what will be cheaper for you- to use AWS SQL AMI or to buy your own license from Microsoft and attach it to AWS.
AFAIK no. But you should discuss it with your Microsoft Partner from which you want to buy a license.
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My intention is to become familiar with Toad for Oracle. For this, I would like to be able to connect to an Oracle database, preferably locally on my machine. Can someone please give me directions on what I need to download/minimum requirements for my machine, etc.?
For a Free version of Oracle, I suggest you choose Oracle Express from the following link
Oracle Database 11g Express Edition
Free to develop, deploy, and distribute
Oracle Database 11g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is an
entry-level, small-footprint database based on the Oracle Database 11g
Release 2 code base. It's free to develop, deploy, and distribute;
fast to download; and simple to administer.
Oracle Database XE is a great starter database for:
Developers working on Node.js, Python, PHP, Java, .NET, XML, and Open Source applications
DBAs who need a free, starter database for training and deployment
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and hardware vendors who want a starter database to distribute free of charge
Educational institutions and students who need a free database for their curriculum
About system requirements, you will find detail information at this Oracle's documentation
Hope this helps!
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I'm reading through the online documentation about Access 2013 (and I hate it even more than 2007 when they removed user level security). It keeps talking about how it uses SQL Server as the back end database. My experience with SQL Server is that the free version is not great and the paid version is extremely expensive.
If I want to use Access 2013 at home, and I want the proper SQL Server, so I have to buy it?
You can buy SQL Server Developer Edition for somewhere between $40 and $50. Shop around. Developer Edition has all the features of Enterprise Edition, but different licensing terms (e.g. you can't run it in production). Also Express is more than adequate for a lot of small-medium sized applications.
That said, I think you are misreading the documentation. It most certainly says that you CAN use SQL Server as a backend database. There are plenty of Access-based applications out there that don't.
MS Access 2013 has a new engine called ACE, instead of the Jet engine used in previous versions. There are better integrations as a front end with SQL Server. However, you don't need an actual instance of SQL Server to use it.
http://accessexperts.com/blog/2012/08/20/10-things-we-love-about-access-2013/
If you want to use it at home you can always buy the SQL Server 2012 Developer Edition which has the exact same functionallity as the full version.
The only limitation or difference from Enterprise to Developer is the
license. You cannot use Developer in an environment other than
development or you are violating your license agreement. Otherwise
this functions exactly as Enterprise Edition.
The Dev version can be purchased for under $50 and here is just one link
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Can anyone point me to the AppFabric licensing info?
Windows Server AppFabric is free, so there's no licensing 'cost' involved - it's treated as an add-on to Windows/the .NET framework. The Azure AppFabric SDK does come with a license which states what you can redistribute, but the licence screen in the Windows Server AppFabric installer refers you to the Windows licence.
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However, while AppFabric has no cost implications in and of itself, if you want to use the high availability features in an AppFabric cache, all cache hosts must be running Windows Server Enterprise Edition. There are more details on this here (para. 3), this also refers you to the installation guide (although having just read through the installation guide again I couldn't see this restriction mentioned anywhere).
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Since the business intelligence development studio only seems to come with SQL server discs and you have to install from those discs in order to see the projects inside Visual Studio, are there licensing constraints that I should be aware of? Like only one installation of the business intelligence studio per server?
Although I must preface my response with the worn expression "I'm no licensing expert", I will take a stab at this. I believe your BIDS installation limitations are imposed by SQL Server licensing. If your developer has a MSDN subscription (any team edition) then they are licensed to install BIDS on any number of desktops that they use. If you have a SQL Server license on a server, then you can install BIDS on the server that you are using for the SQL Server license. If you want a free copy of SSRS for development purposes and don't have a MSDN subscription, then you can install SQL Server Express with Advanced Services. If you have a production SQL Server license then you probably are licensed for some development SQL Servers. My guess is you may be able to do development work on one of these servers directly without a MSDN Subscription, but I don't really know for sure. Hope this helps in some way.