{"id":478,"date":"2012-09-12T15:53:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T15:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/glenn\/post\/Save-Money-on-SQL-Server-2012-Licensing-Costs.aspx"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:43:25","slug":"save-money-on-sql-server-2012-licensing-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/save-money-on-sql-server-2012-licensing-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Money on SQL Server 2012 Licensing Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had a chance to record a 33 minute podcast interview on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runasradio.com\/default.aspx?showNum=281\">RunAs Radio #281<\/a> with Richard Campbell, where I talked about the licensing changes in SQL Server 2012 and how to select your new hardware to minimize your SQL Server 2012 licensing costs. I also talked about Intel versus AMD processors, and talked about which Intel processors were good and bad choices for different workloads on SQL Server 2012.<\/p>\n<p>RunAs Radio has been putting out weekly podcasts since April of 2007, and they have a lot of good content available there! Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runasradio.com\/default.aspx?showNum=221\">RunAs Radio #221<\/a> back in July 2011. Paul also did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runasradio.com\/default.aspx?showNum=74\">RunAs Radio #74<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runasradio.com\/default.aspx?showNum=72\">RunAs Radio #72<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had a chance to record a 33 minute podcast interview on RunAs Radio #281 with Richard Campbell, where I talked about the licensing changes in SQL Server 2012 and how to select your new hardware to minimize your SQL Server 2012 licensing costs. I also talked about Intel versus AMD processors, and talked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20,24,25,27,31],"tags":[82,81,56],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-server-hardware","category-intel","category-processors","category-sandy-bridge-ep","category-speaking","category-sql-server-2012","tag-podcast","tag-runas-radio","tag-sql-server-hardware-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}