# Monday, April 9, 2007

"Let's check and see..." and we came back with no license info on SQL Server. Yet the course certainly gives an overview of the various licensing options, so does the Microsoft website. However, when installing SQL Server, you're not asked about licensing. Also the queries SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('LicenseType') and SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('NumLicenses') both return DISABLED.

By design, the product SQL Server 2005 does nothing in terms of enforcing or even storing license information. Eric Burgess mentions this on the Microsoft SQL Server Support Blog, including how to store the license information in the Windows Registry, as was done with SQL Server 2000.

Okay, that for the technical detail, but what remains puzzling is Microsoft's current strong/aggressive campaigning on licensing versus no instruments in SQL Server.

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