How does SSMS and SQL Server Licensing work?

Posted by DrewK on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by DrewK
Published on 2012-12-03T16:47:52Z Indexed on 2012/12/03 17:05 UTC
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Could not get a efficient enough answer from MSFT or some of their vendors.

Trying to determine exactly how the licensing works before dropping the money on it. Looking to get Server/CAL. We will have the server at our datacenter and then be using SSMS remote on each developers computer. That is, installing SSMS on all developers machine. I am not familiar with MSFT licensing (postgresql & mysql). If I were to pay for the server license and 5 CALs does that mean we can install SSMS locally on each machine. Does each CAL have a specific lic. # that is entered when installing SSMS? We were messing with just the trial edition and the only way I know of installing SSMS is using the full sql server install and choosing only SSMS, it still requires a license number. Any information would be very useful.

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