#Sql server 2012 enterprise edition core license cost series#
This processor was the hot ticket in late 2008 through early 2010 (when the Nehalem-based Intel Xeon 7500 series was introduced in Q1 of 2010). The “old” model server that I want to use for this comparison is a Dell PowerEdge R900 server, which is a 10th generation, four-socket, 4U, rack-mount server that used the Intel Xeon 7200 series, Intel Xeon 7300 series and the Intel Xeon 7400 series processors, culminating in the Intel Xeon X7460 processor that was released in Q3 of 2008.
The reason that I focus on Enterprise Edition is because of the 64GB RAM limit for Standard Edition and because of all of the compelling features in Enterprise Edition that are so valuable for mission critical database servers. In order to illustrate this point, I want to compare a couple of different, common server models from Dell, from a SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition perspective. This is especially true with SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition and its core-based licensing model. If you have read my SQL Server Hardware book, or ever heard me do one of my hardware presentations, you have probably heard my exhortations to “Never let anyone talk you into reusing old hardware for a new version of SQL Server”.