On May 1, 1931, the Empire State Building was dedicated during a ceremony led by President Herbert Hoover, who symbolically pressed a button in Washington at the same time the skyscraperâs lights were turned on at 350 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
1 The major change in licensing from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2012 is that a per core option is now available for the Standard Edition. 2  This means that you have two choices: purchase per core licenses at $1,793 or purchase a server license at $898 and client access licenses at $209 per client. SQL Server 2012 Web is a specialized version of SQL Server for use in web hosting environments. 2  This edition is available only to Services Provider License Agreement customers. 3  Contact your Microsoft sales rep for further information if you think you may qualify.
1 Sybase called the database server  Sybase SQL Server 2  . 1988: Sybase, Microsoft, and Ashton-Tate port the Sybase RDBMS to the OS/2 platform. 3  Microsoft markets the new product as SQL Server. 4  The terms of the agreement give Microsoft a license to Sybase's SQL Server code. March 1986: Sybase enters into talks with Microsoft to license DataServer, a database product built to run on UNIX computers. 2  Those talks led to a product called Ashton-Tate/Microsoft SQL Server 1.0, which shipped in May of 1989. 3  1986: Sybase ships its first test programs.