Martin Reid
mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk
Tue Dec 21 09:11:02 CST 2010
John It was my understanding that CALs are per user not per connection. We use processor licences instead. You need one per processor. Martin -----Original Message----- From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: 21 December 2010 15:07 To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; VBA; Sqlserver-Dba Subject: [dba-SQLServer] CAL aware software I am trying to understand the CAL requirements of Microsoft's Windows 2008 Server and SQL Server 2008. The way I understand it, you buy CALs for each simultaneous connection. Server software gets rather expensive once you buy the software itself and then 30 or more CALs for the OS as well as for SQL Server. Do any of you spend time worrying about how to minimize the effect of the database on CAL utilization? For example do linked tables count differently than ado disconnected recordsets? Linked tables are connected from the time the person opens access to the time they close it as opposed to disconnected recordsets where a connection is made just long enough to get the data. Would the user be legally "connected" even though the application used disconnected recordsets? Any thoughts on how all this applies to CAL requirements. -- John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com _______________________________________________ dba-SQLServer mailing list dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver http://www.databaseadvisors.com