Kindly shed some light on this for me please.
Through my free membership of Visual Studio Dev Essentials, I have a free copy of SQL Server Developer edition installed on my personal machine.
How can we get free Developer edition copies for the organisation, we need to use this for a number of non-production instances?
I am aware that each user that accesses the non-production instance, through the application or back-end tool, needs to have a developer license.
Could you please give some guidance on how to go about doing this at the organisation level? Does each developer/tester/dba have to have their own Visual Studio Dev Essentials free subscription? That doesn't sound right to me, could you please guide or point me to an article that can help me?
The client has to use 2012 at this point in time, due to application support compatibility.
Thank you so much.
Best Answer
Licensing questions are generally not applicable to this forum, but this is a pretty high level one that's more about process, and for an edition that technically doesn't require paid licensing.
Developer Edition is freely available right off of Microsoft's website for SQL Server. The direct download link is here. This will be for the latest version, 2019.
From a process perspective, you just need one copy of the installer and your company's System Admin should be able to use it to install Developer Edition on all of the servers you need to test with.