> Hi,
>
> What exactly does the 5 user(s) license of MSDE means?
>
> "sa" is a user and i can have only 4 more users, does that means
> total 5 users license?
> Or its the number of users connected to MSDE at any given point of
> time?
>
> Reetesh.

"Andrea Montanari" <andrea.sqlDMO@virgilio.it> wrote in message
news:30rjstF346j3iU1@uni-berlin.de...
> hi Reetesh,
> "Reetesh B. Chhatpar" <reetesh@widesystems.com> ha scritto nel
> messaggio news:OZsTAvI1EHA.1408@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl
> > Hi,
> >
> > What exactly does the 5 user(s) license of MSDE means?
> >
> > "sa" is a user and i can have only 4 more users, does that means
> > total 5 users license?
> > Or its the number of users connected to MSDE at any given point of
> > time?
> >
> > Reetesh.
>
> MSDE does not have a "5 users license" limitation... MSDE includes a
> Governor Workloads that kicks in when 8 of more concurrent workloads
> activities (batches that include the operations as described in
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/architec/8_ar_sa2_0ciq.asp?frame=true)
> are executed and slows all of them down, but more workloads are supported
> and only slowed down...
> AFAIK, no such a limitation exists, nor technical or legal..
> --
> Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
> http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtm http://italy.mvps.org
> DbaMgr2k ver 0.9.1 - DbaMgr ver 0.55.1
> (my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
> interface)
> --------- remove DMO to reply
>

> Hi Andrea,
>
> The article was really worth reading. Thanks for clearing up my doubt
> for MSDE. Could you also please share with me the licensing logic for
> SQL Server. How do i cut-cost my product installation when I choose
> backend as SQL?