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.
I have installed SQL Server R2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 in a development environment. The name of the server is SQL2008 and the instance name of the SQL Server is SQL2008\DATA. Now, I wanted to change the server name to âearthâ so that the instance of SQL Server has to become âearthâ, not âearth\DATAâ. I can change the Windows Server to âearthâ. But to change the instance of SQL Server, I wanted to follow proper procedure so that I donât break the SQL Server.