Info on Licence / Connection

Please let me know the difference between a Licence and a Connection in SQL
Server.
Do I need to have a licence for each connection ?
Thanks
HarryCheck out the site
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/faq.asp for the
answers to these questions, as well as the questions those
answers will engender.
Allen
>--Original Message--
>Please let me know the difference between a Licence and a
Connection in SQL
>Server.
>Do I need to have a licence for each connection ?
>Thanks
>Harry
>
>.
>|||Hi Allen
I checked this web site. But yet a bit confused. I would like to know
whether One Connections needs One Licence ?
Thanks
Harold
"Allen White" <awhite_nospam@.advanstar.com> wrote in message
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> Check out the site
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/faq.asp for the
> answers to these questions, as well as the questions those
> answers will engender.
> Allen
>
>>--Original Message--
>>Please let me know the difference between a Licence and a
> Connection in SQL
>>Server.
>>Do I need to have a licence for each connection ?
>>Thanks
>>Harry
>>
>>.|||"Harry" <harold2810@.toughguy.net> wrote in message
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> Hi Allen
> I checked this web site. But yet a bit confused. I would like to know
> whether One Connections needs One Licence ?
> Thanks
There is no relationship between connections and licenses. Sql Server is
licensed either under a per processor model or server+cal model. In the per
processor model you can have unlimited connections from any number of users
and devices. In the server+cal model you must have a cal for each user, or
for each device which accesses sql server. A licensed user or device can
have any many connections to the server, or many users can share a few
connections.
David