The Enterprise Edition will cost $25,000 per processor compared to $20,000 per processor in the SQL Server generation. The Standard Edition will cost $6,000 per processor, up from $5,000 per chip.

The SQL Server community this week engaged in a lively debate about limitations of the 2014 Standard Edition and Microsoft licensing practices. The discussion--highlighted on Hacker News --was sparked ...

SQL Server Standard Edition includes Always On Failover Clustering, which leverages Windows Server Failover Clustering built into the operating system. While getting this to work well in the ...

With a SAN-less cluster designed for use with SQL Server, however, all database applications can be made HA using only the Standard Edition.