Asked 7 years ago. Active 7 years ago. Viewed times. Improve this question. Aaron Bertrand k 36 36 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Gordon Bergling Gordon Bergling 11 3 3 bronze badges. This question appears to be off-topic because it is about software licensing. Please contact your licensing representative to ensure you are compliant - your peers can't tell you that and you can't use their words here in court as justification. Sorry if I am being off-topic, but this is not about an legal issue, it is more about getting information about how other developers have used the sql server developer edition within a vmware farm.
Ultimately, though, your main concern should be whether your use of Developer Edition for what seems to be production processes and data consumption is legal. You need to ensure that anything you plan to do keeps you in compliance, and you need to ensure that your bosses and your company's legal team have documentation that you made those assurances. Also, is an additional server really your biggest concern? How much does a server cost compared to Enterprise Edition licenses?
Sorry, you still need to talk to a licensing expert, not peer developers. Show 5 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. See System Requirements. Almost all recent Software and services are designed to work on the internet. Without of the box cloud connectivity, developers will be able to begin work from any computer connected to the internet.
While developing solutions, advanced testing tools mirror a production environment making more trustworthy builds that can be pushed to end users. Auditing and reporting are easily manageable with customizable and filterable analysis tools. SaveOnIT offers this improved server package specifically for developers at the most reasonable price with guaranteed Microsoft licensing.
Continue reading below for more detailed information regarding this edition of Microsoft SQL Server Whether seeking onsite or publicly shared cloud solutions, developers will find highly improved and reliable data processing capabilities in this edition. Increased speed, visibility into data integrity, testing tools, and auditing become easy tasks with the installation of this server.
Following this description, you will find more detailed information about the key features of Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition. PowerView — As quickly as a user can think of a task, the addition of PowerView enables a developer to take action with an interactive and highly visual interface. All levels of users will be empowered to independently solve problems with inclusion of this feature. Advanced Testing Tools — Any software change or upgrade takes an absorbent amount of testing.
What used to take testers or developers hundreds of man hours to test is now possible in large-scale batches with environments almost identical to production. With a combination of onsite and vendor help, purging, restoring, mining, and clarifying data is a breeze.
AlwaysOn — Expeditious failover capability is included in this package. The new addition of AlwaysOn makes what used to stop productivity in its tracks a worry of the past. Subsequent executions of the installer will check to see if those setup files are the latest version vs. If there is a newer version, we will download the files again. If not, we just skip this step and run setup. If so, you will get an error pointing you to download a new version.
Once the setup files are downloaded, the screen is updated to indicate successful download and the installation phase begins with another progress indicator. This involves a quick extraction of setup files from the package and executing setup.
When this finishes, you get a screen with information about the successful installation. You can see from this screen on the left side what was installed. This is effectively the same as if you had used the full install and picked the features of Database Engine Services and Client Connectivity SDK as the two components to install.
How do I know this? I went to uninstall what I just installed and received these two features as options to remove. On the right side of the screen above is information about the installation including what connecting string to use, where the setup log files are located, where the setup files we extracted from the package were saved for you to add other features or run the installer again without downloading the package , and a folder containing these important files to review after you have installed:.
Before you Get Started — Information about how to configure remote connectivity to your new instance. Getting Started — Remember those updates that flashed by at the bottom of the screen during installation? All the information about samples, forum support, and keeping up to date with updates are located in this file.
Connect Now — Launches a separate command line window running sqlcmd. This is a very handy way to go in and add features after the basic installation is complete. You also have the option to perform this same action on the main installer screen where it says Custom. If you launch the easy installer again, should you have an instance already installed, we will just create a new one with a sequential number e.
As you see the new UI look for our installer, you may be wondering is this a completely different installer technology? The answer is simply no. Behind the scenes we are running our actual setup code which uses Windows Installer but using a configuration file with predefined settings and putting a simple UI over the execution.
It is simple, quick, and uses the proven setup technology from our past several releases. What if you wanted to know more about what configuration options we use and what the configuration file looks like?
It is all recorded in the setup summary log files. In it are all the settings we use to run setup. If you select Custom , we launch setup to run the full setup experience. You are first prompted on where to download the media setup package and files. The Download Media option is exactly what that means. Select this to download Express, Developer, or Evaluation setup files to a destination folder so you can run the full setup experience at a later time.
This option is not necessarily designed to save the setup files for use for subsequent basic installer setup. But here is a tip. One other important note. The setup and installer logs are all available as with any normal SQL Server setup experience. One difference is the GUI we present from the Basic Installer 3 clicks scenario if there is a rule check failure.
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