License model, you will need a CAL license. If you need to access production server and you are running in server/cal So to summarize, if you say restore a prod DB to your developer edition SQL server, and only use for development and not serving any clients apart from your own development, that is fine. I'm not a license expert, but here is my understanding of it.ĭeveloper edition is used for development, as long as the data and the purpose is not used as production, that is included.Īs for "CAL", you are correct that for any user/device connects to a production SQL, it will need a CAL license (given you are still on the server/cal model), if you are running on the per core model, you do not need CALs anymore. That means you need to license QA copies of SQL Server as production in order to test your changes and test deployments because you will be refreshing data from production to do the testing. Here is the software, but don't touch it with productionĭata to test against. But based on the text, if I pull the data from production and use it to test its a violation because it touched production.
Means copying data to an instance to troubleshoot and tune.etc. Only the tools are, that is considered production use? The tool pack you get in each edition (ssms) is exactly the same, so what difference does that part make if the tools were from developer, standard or enterprise edition? And troubleshooting problems
I understand what the edition is for, and that is why I would install it locally to do work against in regards to dev/test, however, by simply using the tools to connect to production even if the instance on my system is not doing anything with production, There is literally no reason to use the developer edition of the product if that is the case. So, my question is, what use is it then if you can't use it on your system? Even if you installed it on a "server", technically you couldn't pull production data to it, which violates the license. While I would understand the need for a "CAL" license to connect to those production systems, you shouldn't need anything else to run Developer Edition. While pulling data from a production database for troubleshooting issues, fixing code.etc. I was always under the impression that if you were not "serving" data to production systems, then it was not considered production. If the system has access to a production system, you cannot use Developer Edition on it. He was also told that Developer Edition is not for use with production data, meaning you cannot put production data on it for testing/developing because, well, as a DBA using the tools portion to access production systems, or reading emails.etc.
With respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose.So, Microsoft recently made Developer Edition free to download and use, but during a discussion with a colleague who was being going through reconciliation he was told that you cannot download and use Developer Edition on a PC that you are using for regular We make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability Official release Notes:ĭisclaimer: The Questions and Answers provided on are for general information purposes only. Comments or suggestions are welcome down below. Once the final release of SQL Server 2019 is out under GA (General Availability), we should be able to share more details information in this article. Just like its predecessor, SQL Server 2019 runs on the following platforms: Platform OS Linux System requirements for SQL Server 2019 Windows Server 2016 or 2019 Editions only.
1 GB system memory (Standard & Enterprise) or 512 MB for Express Edition.AMD or Intel-based 圆4 Processors (AMD Opteron, Phenom, AMD Athlon 64, Intel Xeon with native EM64T support.So, let us check out the Windows system requirements first. Many of these server OS’s are yet being run as production for many major corporations around the world. Several older server operating systems are also not supported.
In a way, this also indicates that Microsoft has finally got rid of their legacy code and binaries which were still running in 32-bit mode under WoW. The first thing to note is that this edition does not support a 32-bit processor anymore.