With new R2 licensing, costs go up and unlimited virtualization rights on SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition go away ...

SQL Server is going to cost a minimum of $12k (you can't buy fewer than 4 core licenses, no matter how few virtual cores you use). $6k for a VM host + labor isn't unreasonable.

Idera, a provider of Microsoft SQL Server management and administration tools, announced SQL virtual database 1.3, the latest release for this solution that enables backup files to look and act just ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

For P2V of a SQL server, my practice has been to convert the system drive (C:\) of the source system and utilize one of two recovery strategies. The first is to create the data volume of the SQL ...

In addition, Microsoft announced that it is expanding virtualization use rights to allow unlimited virtual instances on servers that are fully licensed for SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition.

Currently, SQL Server 2008 users have unlimited virtualization rights, according to Microsoft's pricing and licensing guide (Word doc download). However, to get "maximum virtualization" rights with ...

How many virtual machines can you put on a server? Depends upon whether your hardware and virtualisation environment are well-matched. This tip offers four criteria for selecting the right servers ...