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[masds]

Our company want buy a SQL Server license for testing use, is SQL Server standard editin enough? What's the price for it if we only install it on one server and not being accessed by other client? Thanks

 

[jitter]

If you for sure are not going to use for production but only for developing and testing you might check out the development edition. It can be quite a bit less expensive but still give you all the power of enterprise edition.

I do emphasize that it is for development and testing only on one machine.

Here are just a couple of sites to check out.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/development.asp

http://www.s7.com/sqlserver2000-developer

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/architec/8_ar_ts_8ynn.asp

You can always get the evaluation edition of SQL 2K enterprise edition for 120 days but I don't know if that is what you would want at all.

Hope this all helps.

jitter

Instead of shooting where I was, you should have shot where I was going to be. - Lrrr (Planet Nintendio64)

 

[Catadmin]

Jitter is correct. The development edition (at least through Provantage last year) only cost me $50.00. Other versions of SQL Server are at least several hundred (if not over $1000) dollars.

Of course, you can expect the SQL Server 2000 price to go down by the end of the year due to the soon to be release of Yukon / SQL Server 2005. If Microsoft irons out enough bugs to release it by the end of the year. @=)



Catadmin - MCDBA, MCSA
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[maswien]

Thanks for the quick responses!

I can't gurantee that we won't use this server as production server in the future, so I think we need a edition like Enterprise or standard, I looked the BOL, it looks like there whole batch of features supported in Enterprise edtion but not in standard edition, especially in analysis service, I kind of looking to enterprise edition for this, although it's more expensive than standard, if sometime we think we really need support some fancy analysis features, then it saves us money spending on buying standard edtion. What do you think?

 

[maswien]

sorry it's not me post the original question, I remember I posted the similiar question in this forum, but not this one, sorry for the confuse!

 

[Catadmin]

Find out what features your users / Boss want from SQL Server. Then make your purchase dependant on that and hardware availability. I *think* it is possible to upgrade Standard to Enterprise, but the reverse is not necessarily true.

Check out

http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql

for more details. There might be something on that website that can help you make your decision.



Catadmin - MCDBA, MCSA
Remember, "Work" is a four letter word. And you know what your mother told you about using four letter words!

 

[maswien]

I *think* it is possible to upgrade Standard to Enterprise, but the reverse is not necessarily true.

Very good, that's the point.

 

[Catadmin]

On the other hand, someone else on this forum mentioned that you could purchase Developer, then install a production edition of SQL with named instances over it.

So, if you aren't sure if SQL is your ticket, $50.00 is still a much better price to pay than several hundred if you decide not to go with it.

Best of luck with your decision.



Catadmin - MCDBA, MCSA
Remember, "Work" is a four letter word. And you know what your mother told you about using four letter words!