

Okay, so let's focus on the meat and potatoes of your request, now that we've gotten out of the way about "this isn't really a good question" because you're not the first person confused about this. But if you're running any sort of for-profit organization, spend the few dollars to get help. If you're a non-profit plenty of folks out there can help, toss something on twitter with #sqlhelp and I bet you can get some help. We can't honestly tell every visitor exactly how to license their business and what every single visitor's needs are this is the sort of thing to spend a few dollars on.

Ostensibly you should have some sort of MSDN license for your organization, so that's a good thing to hire a consultant for understanding. One thing you're missing is what version of SQL you think you should be running this on, and what licensing you're already privy to. here's a good resource for knowing what sort of things we're good at answering here and on SO.Īll that being said, there's always room for real-world explanations of "how does this actually work" and I'm always happy to help people who just don't understand the larger world of licensing and such. It's not good for StackOverflow for the same reason. It's a little vague still, and it's gonna be outdated before a while. This question isn't particularly suited for the dba.se site, for a couple of reasons.
