Microsoft SQL Server 2025 Standard - 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 Standard
Option #1
SERVER + CAL:
Provides the option to license users and/or devices, with low-cost access to incremental SQL Server deployments.
Each server running SQL Server software requires a server license.
Each user and/or device accessing a licensed SQL Server requires a SQL Server CAL that is the same version or newer - for example, to access a SQL Server 2017 Standard Edition server, a user would need a SQL Server 2017, 2019, or 2022 CAL.
Each SQL Server CAL allows access to multiple licensed SQL Servers, including Standard Edition and legacy Business Intelligence and Enterprise Edition Servers.
Option #2
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 certfication | |||
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, 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.
Outfit your enterprise with the industry’s latest relational database management system. With the SQL server 2022 standard download, available with Software Assurance from Microsoft, get access to tools including Big Data clusters with Apache Spark and HDFS, Azure Machine Learning and Spark ML, intelligent query processing and more.
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Microsoft requires a minimum of 4 Cores to be licensed
Standard edition
Core-based licensing
Allows for one administrative access point
On-premises download license only