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eXtension
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 Posted - 2009-11-04 : 20:09:38
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| Hi,I just need to find out, if I purchase a SQL Server with 5 CALs, does that mean 5 clients or 5 connections? E.g.,If my application makes 2 concurrent connections to the database from the same PC, does that "use up" 2 of the 5 license? |
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eXtension
Starting Member
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Posted - 2009-11-08 : 06:20:54
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russell
Pyro-ma-ni-yak
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Posted - 2009-11-08 : 10:01:33
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| 5 clients. A single client may make multiple connections without using up additional licenses. |
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nwalter
Starting Member
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Posted - 2009-11-09 : 00:34:38
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| There are user cals and device cals.With a user CAL any user can use multiple devices to connect and access SQL services. So someone with two workstations, a PDA, and a laptop only needs one CAL if you purchase user cals.With a device CAL each device that any user uses only needs a single CAL so if you have multiple people who use a single workstation then you would only need to purchase a single device CAL for each workstation and not each user.In either case the number of actual connections established doesn't matter. If a single device or a single user makes 100 connections it's still only one CAL. |
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