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MetrixData360’s In-depth Webinar on SQL Licensing and Compliance

Name: MetrixData360’s In-depth Webinar on SQL Licensing and Compliance
Uploaded: 2023-12-16T12:00:28+00:00
Duration: 1 min 9 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin walks through SQL Server licensing decisions when you don't have complete inventory data. Most organizations operate with less than 65%…

16 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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Mike Austin walks through SQL Server licensing decisions when you don't have complete inventory data. Most organizations operate with less than 65% inventory coverage and under 50% attribute completeness, which means 2,000 attribute values across 100 servers go unchecked, risking costly licensing mistakes.

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And so if my inventory tool doesn't tell me that, how do I make licensing decisions? Right? That is a big question that a lot of organizations struggle with because they don't know. Engineer installed that thing ten years ago, six years ago. We have no visibility into it. We don't even have access to the server. How do I go out and figure these things out? Not to mention all the other attributes. So I have processor cores, you know, passive, active host guests, relationships, all of those sorts of things. So if I look at it and say, okay, I have 100 SQL servers, do I have 95 of them? Inventory, right? Check mark one. If I need 20 attributes for 100 servers, that's 2000 attributes. Do I have, you know, 1900 of those? If I don't, I don't want to be making a license position. And this is where our competitors fall down. This is where most organizations fall down is they, they go ahead, they go and get inventory where they're at less than 65% and their attributes at less than 50% and they're going to making license decision.