General Consultant Discussion

Good afternoon quick question for Sage 100 Premium how many SQL user licenses do you need, my gut is telling me 3 SA, MAS_USER, and MAS_REPORTS however I'm unsure if every Sage user would need their own license in addition to that, can anyone shed some light on the that topic?

I'm not sure the exact licensing for the Sage run-time, but as far as Microsoft's concerned with SQL Server Standard or Enterprise, you either license by the processor core (all physical cores on the box or at least 4 if SQL is virtual) or per-User, and per-User means any user that could ever potentially touch the SQL server for data. If you have more than 30 users, per-vcore is usually cheapest. If you have less than 30, per User is the way to go.

So for per-User licensing, any Sage user would require a SQL CAL.

Sage knows nothing about SQL (I trust Steve's answer more for sure). I wonder what M$ would say about this KB article?

wow Kevin I had a theory Sage would say something like that and be wrong, ya though to your point I'm sorta wondering what would happen if they found that.

Sage doesn't allow unlimited connections to Sage 100 if they use the same login... so why would they think M$ does? Almost shocking for a major software company who makes their revenue from licensing.