Hello Experts, i have bought the licences for 20 user for my company, but naw i want to open a new company and to add additinal user-licences for the new companies. My implementor has suggest to me that is better to create a new database in the same server for the second company. Not te create e new company in the same server.
Its correct this way.
Regards.
Hi
if tou create a new data base for your new company,20 users can login that means
20 users can login in your old company also
20 users can login in your new company
so that 40 users can login at a time using the same license without increasing the user login
Thanks
Jerome Marshal.J
No, its not ok in this way i think,
We have upload the licences to the server, naw i want to create the new company, but using the the rights as are in licences. My consulant said to me that is better to crate to different databases for diferent companises in the same server. So for the first company i have 20 user licences that i am using. For the second companies i have to add 7 users. My consultant say to me that its better to gett 7 additional user licences for the first company, and this licence to upload to the server. So to databases ca work with this licence. So 27 concurrent users (20 for the first and 7 for the second can work)
Regards
No! Unless things are completely different in India, that is not correct at all! Maybe if you have the “store license in database” granule, otherwise all of the NAV databases on the server use the one license stored on that server. That means if you have 10 in one database and 10 in another you have reached your limit…
To another point, it is against licensing terms to run more than one database on a single license. Nothing prevents you from doing this, but is against the contract you signed and Microsoft can hold you accountable.
Almar, if you want to do this the correct and legal way, you should add a company to your one existing database. 7 extra users is not enough to warrant the purchase of a brand new license for a new database. If it gets to the point that you run into performance issues (doubtful) you can backup the database and restore a copy. Delete a company from each database and then you have separate databases.
Good luck
Thank You matt Tranxinger,
Because i was in dubt is legal or no, to use in the same server tow databases. My consulant say to me that Microsoft give the nuber of licences for the server, (for this reason when you upload to server you can use tow databases with one licence but in accoradance with the nuber of users to don’t reach them). But in my contrat i have unlimited companies but in the same database. For this reason i was in dubt is legal or no.
Strange thing, this “unlimited companies”-granule. There are only certain conditions where you are allowed to have several companies in your database. It is allowed if you run a bookkeeping-company, or if you have a certain minimum %-age of the ownership of companies. And then some other rules as well, probably.
Perhaps you shall talk to your PAM about this…
Hi if tou create a new data base for your new company,20 users can login that means 20 users can login in your old company also 20 users can login in your new company so that 40 users can login at a time using the same license without increasing the user login Thanks
Manish,
As Matt wrote above, then doing this is NOT LEGAL! It’s is possible to do so, but it’s against anything what this user group is about. You could just as well download a pirated copy of Navision!
The only situation where such a setup is accepted (but not strictly legal) is if you are setting up a copy of your database for testing purposes only.
Actually as long as you install the two databases on the same SQLServer instance and you install the license in the server and not in the database and you have the granule which allows you to do so, then SQL is able to manage this on a fully legal way with one license and two or more databases.
Actually that is not correct. The license restricts you to a single NAV database. Below are excerpts form the Software License Agreement:
“…You must obtain a separate license for each system database if you wish to install an additional component for multiple system databases. You may not duplicate license keys without Microsoft’s express written consent…”
“…“system database” means the underlying database that controls your users and financial reporting units…”
The “system database” consist of the “tables common”.
I think there is some confusion by everyone.
The licensing agreement that you sign (or at least all of the ones I’ve seen) says that you can only use the license with a single database. It is true that SQL will handle it just fine if you have multiple databases on the same server. There is nothing in the actual license file to stop you from doing that.
If you choose to use the same license on multiple database servers then that is stealing the software. Again, there is nothing to stop you from doing this in the license itself. But that doesn’t make it legal or right. You may not want to shell out another $40,000 for a 10 user system, but that’s the way the licensing works.
For everyone that is thinking this is ok, think about this scenario, although it is a big stretch. You have a 100 user company and you don’t want to pay $400,000 for an advanced management license. So instead you buy a 25 user license for $100,000 and create 4 databases. The company’s DBA writes SQL jobs to constantly keep each database updated with the correct data. Yes it’s a HUGE stretch and taking it to the extreme, but many of the responses indicate that you think this is ok.
Anyway, I’m ranting, and the people who think this sort of thing is ok will probably always think it is ok.