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Demystifying SQL Server Licensing

Name: Demystifying SQL Server Licensing
Uploaded: 2024-06-14T15:30:28+00:00
Duration: 40 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: A short YouTube talk by Mike Austin explaining SQL Server licensing concepts, focusing here on the notion of a physical Operating System Environment…

14 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube talk by Mike Austin explaining SQL Server licensing concepts, focusing here on the notion of a physical Operating System Environment (OSE) and how licensing counts depend on whether SQL Server runs on physical or virtual cores and where the OSE resides.

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The other concept is this concept of a physical Operating system environment or an ose. And so that can be run on a physical box. So it could be your Windows server on a physical box, or it could be a Windows Server that's running in a virtual environment on a vm. Right. So OSCE has become important because that's how everything gets tied back. When you get into the licensing is where's the OSC residing? And then how are you counting these things? So whether they're virtual cores, physical cores, depends on what's going on. And I'll talk about that in a little bit more detail.