SQL Server 2014 Developer Edition is now free

On April 1, it is customary to begin the news with a regular "true" story. In the morning I already read the review of the engineering sample AMD Zen . But in the case of SQL Server , everything really is true.

On March 31, Tiffany Wissner ( Senior Director of Data Platform Marketing ) announced that now SQL Server 2014 Developer Edition is completely free as part of Visual Studio Dev Essentials . From everyone is required only to register.

By the way, it will be said that before Developer Edition cost $ 59.95 per developer.
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What gives freebies? Now you do not need to be wise with the number of licenses that are issued to the company as part of the partnership program. Forget about the headache of reinstalling Evaluation every 180 days.

Everyone can safely install the Developer Edition , which is equivalent to the functionality of the Enterprise Edition . The only limitation in the license is “cannot be used for production workloads” . In fact, it turns out that everything became free for testing, training and development.

But the amenities do not end there. After the release of SQL Server 2016, the Developer Edition will remain free. And in the new version there are a lot of buns that people are looking forward to. According to insider information, the release of the RTM version is expected in April-May. The release of SQL Server 2016 is expected June 1, 2016.