Microsoft SQL Server 2025 Standard Edition License
Original price was: $939.88.$849.88Current price is: $849.88.
SQL Server 2025 Standard: Modern Performance, Security & AI-Ready Data
Modernize your data infrastructure with SQL Server 2025 Standard. Built on the proven foundation of the 2022 release, this version introduces groundbreaking AI integration, real-time data streaming, and enhanced hybrid cloud security.
Key Features & Benefits
- AI-ready performance & real-time analytics: Use modern analytics and streaming capabilities to turn business data into faster, more useful insights.
- Enhanced security & data protection: Help protect sensitive information with security capabilities built into SQL Server 2025.
- Server + CAL licensing: A practical choice for organizations with a known number of users or devices that need access to the server.
- Microsoft Partner support: Solved IT Services provides Microsoft licensing guidance, digital delivery, and support to help make deployment as straightforward as possible.
The Solved IT Services Advantage
As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, we don’t just sell keys; we provide peace of mind.
- Perpetual Licensing: One-time purchase licensing with no recurring monthly subscription for the licensed edition.
- Digital Delivery: License details and download instructions are delivered electronically after your order is processed.
- Helpful Support: Our team can assist with CALs, core licensing, installation, activation, and general deployment questions.
- One-Time Purchase: No recurring monthly subscription is required for this perpetual license.
Why Upgrade to SQL Server 2025?
- AI-Ready Capabilities: Modern analytics and AI-ready features help you work with data more efficiently.
- Enhanced Security: Built-in encryption and security capabilities help protect sensitive workloads and business information.
- Hybrid Flexibility: Connect on-premises environments with cloud-ready services and deployment options.
- Performance & Reliability: Designed for demanding database workloads, dependable operation, and developer productivity.
Choosing Your Licensing Model
SQL Server 2025 Standard can be licensed in two primary ways. Choose the model that best matches how your organization will access and run SQL Server:
| Model | Server + CAL | Per-Core Licensing |
|---|---|---|
| Best For | Small to mid-sized internal teams. | Large user bases or web-facing apps. |
| How it Works | License the server + a CAL for every user/device. | License based on the number of CPU cores. |
| User Limit | Finite (Limited by your CAL count). | Unlimited users/devices. |
| Minimums | Min. 5 CALs purchase requirement. | Min. 4 core licenses per processor/VM. |
Pro Tip: If you can’t easily count your users (like a public website) or you are running Enterprise Edition, you must use the Per-Core model.
Standard vs. Enterprise: At a Glance
- Standard Edition: Best for mid-tier applications and data marts. Supports both licensing models and offers essential high availability.
- Enterprise Edition: Designed for massive scale and 24/7 mission-critical workloads. Includes unlimited virtualization (with Software Assurance) and advanced “Always On” availability.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Is this a perpetual license?
Yes. This is a one-time purchase perpetual license.
Q. Does this include Software Assurance?
No. Software Assurance is not included.
Q. Can I downgrade to earlier versions?
Downgrade rights require Software Assurance and are not included.
Q. Is CAL licensing required?
Only if you choose the Server + CAL licensing model.
Q. Can this be used in virtual environments?
Yes, physical and virtual deployments are supported.
How to License SQL Server Standard
Option #1
SERVER + CAL:
License the SQL Server instance and purchase the appropriate CALs for the users or devices that will access it.
- Each server running SQL Server software requires a server license.
- Each user and/or device accessing a licensed SQL Server requires a SQL Server CAL that is the same version or newer – for example, to access a SQL Server 2017 Standard Edition server, a user would need a SQL Server 2017, 2019, or 2022 CAL.
- Each SQL Server CAL allows access to multiple licensed SQL Servers, including Standard Edition and legacy Business Intelligence and Enterprise Edition Servers
Option #2
PER CORE:
License SQL Server according to processor cores rather than individual users or devices, which can be a better fit for larger, virtualized, or external-facing environments.
- Core based licensing is appropriate when customers are unable to count users/devices, have Internet/Extranet workloads, or have systems that integrate with external facing workloads.
- To license a physical server—when running SQL Server in a physical OSE—all physical cores on the server must be licensed.
- A minimum of four core licenses are required for each physical processor on the server.
SQL Server Features: Standard vs. Enterprise
| SQL Server Features | Standard | Enterprise | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compute and storage | Maximum number of cores | 24 | OS Max | |
| Maximum memory utilized per instance | 128 GB | OS Max | ||
| Maximum size | 524 PB | 524 PB | ||
| Intelligence over all your data | SQL Server Big Data Clusters with Apache Spark and HDFS built into SQL Server engine | |||
| Data virtualization using PolyBase (including additional data sources like Oracle, Teradata, MongoDB, and other SQL Server databases) | ||||
| Unified AI platform to train and operationalize models with SQL Server ML Services | ||||
| Azure Machine Learning and Spark ML | ||||
| Choice of language and platform | Compatibility certfication | |||
| UTF-8 Support | ||||
| Support for SQL Server Java extension | ||||
| Industry-leading performance and availability | Free DR replicas in Azure and on-premises | |||
| Intelligent Query processing: Scalar UDF inlining, table variable deferred compilation, approximate count distinct | ||||
| Intelligent Query processing features: row mode memory grant feedback, batch mode for row store and automatic tuning | ||||
| Automatic read-write connection re-routing | ||||
| In-Memory Database: memory-optimized tempdb | ||||
| In-Memory Database: Persistent Memory support | ||||
| Accelerated Database recovery | ||||
| Support for Kubernetes deployment | ||||
| Secure and reliable | Always Encrypted with secure enclaves | |||
| Transparent database encryption | ||||
| Data classification and auditing | ||||
| Vulnerability assessment | ||||
| Quick business insights | Azure Data Studio to manage SQL Server including support for T-SQL using Notebooks | |||
| SQL Server Analysis Services Direct Query | ||||
Microsoft SQL Server has been one of the premier leaders in database technology for years.
Outfit your enterprise with the industry’s latest relational database management system. With the SQL server 2022 standard download, available with Software Assurance from Microsoft, get access to tools including Big Data clusters with Apache Spark and HDFS, Azure Machine Learning and Spark ML, intelligent query processing and more. Download this package here to take advantage of free installation support from Microsoft Solutions Partner, Solved IT Services.
New to SQL Licensing? Check out our SQL Server licensing guide to find out the features that would benefit you and how to license.
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