MS SQL Server Database software license details

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have three queries regarding buying license from sap for MS SQL server software which will be used for SAP Businees suite application.

If we buy database license directly from Microsoft,

1. Will there be any issue in getting support from sap for database related issues during installation and post go live ?

2. Do we have access to download the database software CD provided by SAP or do we have to get it from Microsoft ?

3. Is there any difference in the database software provided by Microsoft and by SAP?

Please update me as soon as possible.

Regards,

Nalla

[Former Member]

Hi Markus,

Please let us know, in this scenario, will we be able to download the database related patches from SAP SMP using our customer id and apply the same in our SAP database or do we need to get those patches from MicroSoft ?

From your reply to the Nallasivam's first query, shall we assume that we can raise database related issues to SAP SMP in SAP DB component using our customer id.

Regards,

Varadhu

[Former Member]

Once you got the Licenses from SAP for MS Sql DB, you can download the DB patches from SMP ID of you Customer. This applicable to all the SAP Supported DB's.

You can download the the DB patches service.sap.com/swdc -- Database patches.

You can raise all sort of issues related with DB and SAP Application in SMP under specific customer ID.

Mahesh

[Former Member]

Hi Mahesh,

Yes, I too accept your thought but the scenario discussed here is that the user got license from MicroSoft for database. In this case is it possible to download and apply the database related patches from SAP SMP.

Regards,

Varadhu

[markus_doehr2]

> 1. Will there be any issue in getting support from sap for database related issues during installation and post go live ?

No.

> 2. Do we have access to download the database software CD provided by SAP or do we have to get it from Microsoft ?

If you license from Microsoft you will need to get the media from Microsoft.

> 3. Is there any difference in the database software provided by Microsoft and by SAP?

No difference but SAP provides a script (sql4sap.vbs) that does necessary setups automatically and installs all patches automatically. You will need to do that then manually.

Markus