https://gingersysadmin.com/tags/mssql/ Recent content in Mssql on The Ginger Sysadmin Blog Hugo en-us Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:03:08 -0500 https://gingersysadmin.com/posts/license-expired-sql-server-evaluation/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:03:08 -0500 https://gingersysadmin.com/posts/license-expired-sql-server-evaluation/ <h1 id="maybe-license-your-sql-servers">Maybe License Your SQL Servers</h1> <p>If you are reading this, you are a developer who installed SQL Server Evaluation and the 180 day window expired, OR, someone setup SQL Server with Evaluation Edition, used it in production (&ldquo;we will license it later&rdquo;), and then some other unsuspecting admin (me) was fairly alarmed when they did a routine service restart and SQL failed to start because that production server had never been licensed. It is definitely the first one, right?</p>