Note that licensing changes for Standard and Enterprise editions to per-core rather than per-CPU.
I haven't yet seen a comparison of our old per-CPU prices for SQL Server 2008/R2 vs the new per-core prices for 2012. If the new per-core prices are around 1/4 to 1/6 of the price of the old per-CPU, then I'll be OK. But I'm not holding my breath. Cheers Ken From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012 6:37 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: [OT] SQL Server 2012 I received a box from Singapore today with a single MSDN disc inside, the June 2012 disc with SQL Server 2012. I'm creating a test virtual Win2008R2 machine to install it on and see what's different or exciting. I plan to import some existing databases and sanity check that my apps work okay with it. Has anyone got any feelings for SQL 2012 so far? Does it have anything that might thrill the regular programmer? (as opposed to thrilling someone building intergalactic networks with the more obscure features) -- Greg
