Microsoft SQL Server 2025 Enterprise License

Microsoft SQL Server 2025 Enterprise is Microsoft's flagship database edition for mission-critical, high-scale workloads. This listing is the general Enterprise Edition license, aimed at organizations that need maximum performance, availability and security.

Why Enterprise Edition?

• Highest scale and performance tier of SQL Server 2025
• Advanced high availability and disaster recovery, including Always On availability groups
• Advanced security and data protection features for regulated workloads
• Built-in vector data support for AI-enabled applications
• Integration with Power BI, Excel and Azure

Best For

• Large enterprise databases and data warehouses
• Applications that cannot tolerate downtime
• Consolidating many databases onto fewer servers

Licensing

• SQL Server Enterprise is licensed per core
• No CALs are needed, so users and devices are unlimited
• A minimum of 4 core licenses is required per server or virtual machine

Enterprise or Standard?

Choose Enterprise for the largest databases and advanced availability features. Standard is enough for most mid-size workloads.