Microsoft SQL Server 2025 Enterprise - 2 Core
Description
*Microsoft Software Licensing terms require a minimum of 4 cores to be licensed with the core model*
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How to License SQL Server Enterprise
PER CORE:
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 | ||
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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 |
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Automatic read-write connection re-routing |
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In-Memory Database: memory-optimized tempdb |
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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. The latest offering, available as a SQL Server 2022 Enterprise download, continues to uphold this reputation.
Take your data further with this two-core license of Microsoft SQL Server, 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.)
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