Microsoft SQL Server Standard 2019 *License only*

• Cross edition rights are currently available for certain SQL Server products only and allow customers to
deploy an alternate (usually lower) edition in place of the currently licensed edition. SQL Server cross
edition rights can be combined with the version downgrade rights (available for all products offered under
a Volume Licensing Agreement) that allow customers to deploy prior versions of the software in place of
the currently licensed version. In some cases, rights to deploy prior versions of product editions other than
the edition currently licensed may also be allowed.

PER CORE: Gives customers a more precise measure of
computing power and a more consistent licensing metric,
regardless of whether solutions are deployed on physical
servers on-premises, or in virtual or cloud environments.
• Core based licensing is appropriate when customers are
unable to count users/devices, have Internet/Extranet
workloads or 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.
SERVER + CAL: Provides the option to license users and/or
devices, with low cost access to incremental SQL Server
deployments.
• 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 2012
Standard Edition server, a user would need a SQL Server
2012 or 2019 CAL.
• Each SQL Server CAL allows access to multiple licensed
SQL Servers, including Standard Edition and legacy
Business Intelligence and Enterprise Edition Servers.