SQL server 2012 EE serial key or number

During the recent consulting engagement Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check with SQL Server /, my client’s DBA asked me that they want PID for free editions of SQL Server. In this blog, I would share my findings and Product Key for Developer Edition, Enterprise Evaluation Edition, and Express Edition.

As you might already know these facts but those who don’t know, let me reiterate in simple terms.

1. Enterprise Evaluation Edition is a free (for days) edition. All features are the samPorducte as Enterprise Edition.
2. Express Edition is a scaled-down edition of SQL with some limitations but allowed for production use.
3. Developer Edition is a free edition (starting SQL onwards) which is allowed only for development but not for production purposes. All features are the same as Enterprise Edition.

If we install these editions using setup wizards, then we can choose them in the below screen.

How would you specify them in the command line? Based on my trial and error, I found that if we want PID for these free editions then here are the keys that can be used.

Product Key

1. Evaluation:
2. Express:
3. Developer:

Once you enter these values and press “Next” then you can verify and see the edition in the next screen which shows License Terms. This would be useful when you want to deploy using a script or command line.

Here are a few additional blog posts on a similar topic which you may find it helpful:

SQL SERVER – Evaluation Period Has Expired – How to Activate SQL Server?
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SQL SERVER – Understanding Licensing Models
SQL Server is available under three different licensing models.

Reference: Pinal Dave (manicapital.com)

Yesterday, I was doing SQL Server Database stress and benchmarking testing on the client side. When I started ramping-up more and more workload on the server, I found the SQL Server was using only 20 CPUs. When I checked the box to know how many CPU the box got, it surprised me because it got logical cores.

I started wondering why SQL Server is using the just 20 logical CPUs; then I found that we were using enterprise edition with “Server+CAL” licensing model. So, I updated the SQL Server Edition from “Server+CAL” to “CORE” model. Once the product key got updated successfully, SQL Server was able to use all the core of the box. Here is how the CPU utilization looks on the server.

The steps to update the product key is very simple. These are the same steps which are required to upgrade the edition of SQL Server. While changing the product key, there is no “real” edition upgrade.

Change SQL Server License key

• Open the SQL Server installation media and run the manicapital.com OR If you have SQL already installed, then you can also launch “Installation Center” by going to Start->Programs ->Microsoft SQL Server >Configuration Tools-> SQL Server Installation Center[(bit)].

• Click on Maintenance tab from left side pane. You can see multiple options in the right side pane. Select first option Edition Upgrade as shown in below image and click Next.

• Once you click on the Edition upgrade button, next window will come to enter the License Key or product Key of SQL Server Instance. Enter your Product Key and hit next.

• Accept License Term and Condition and Click on Next button to proceed.

• Select the SQL Server Instance for which you are going to change license key if you have multiple instances and Click on Next button.

• Now, It checks all rules for edition upgrade. If all the rules show as passed, you are good to go ahead. If you are getting any warning or error, verify and try to fix it before going with the next step.

• You are all ready to upgrade the edition. Click on the Upgrade button

• Once License gets updated successfully, you will see all green check in the below image.

So, you have completed the product or license upgrade successfully. I hope you find it useful.

Thanks!

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Microsoft SQL Server All Versions Activations

Short Introduction:- Microsoft SQL Server is a Relational database Management System created by Microsoft. As a database server, it is a product item with the essential capacity of putting away and recovering information as mentioned by other programming applications&#;which may run either on a similar PC or on another PC over a system.

There are various versions of Microsoft SQL Server which are listed below:

• Developer Edition (x86, x64)
• Developer Edition (x86, x64)
• Enterprise Edition (x86, x64)
• Data Center Edition (x86, x64)
• Standard Edition (x86, x64)
• Web Edition (x86, x64)
• Enterprise Core Edition (x64)
• CAL Edition (x86, x64)
• Business Intelligence Edition (x64)

All versions captioned above can be downloaded for free from link Given below. Click Download Button below and then choose any version which you would like to download.

Here I am going to provide you some Activation keys of Various versions () and Editions of MS SQL Server.