Question

What are the SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2012 licence fees for a single developer?

It’s impossible to tell from the Microsoft website.

Answer 1

SQL Server 2008:

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/get-sql-server/how-to-buy.aspx

Since SQL Server 2012 isn’t out yet, prizing seems to follow.
Found something about 2012 here:

http://www.windowslifestyle.com/microsoft-reveals-sql-server-2012-licensing-pricing/

The licensing costs retained the same, decreased or increased. Horwitz shared his views in an e-mail, where he laid out the changes in bullet points.

• The price of the SQL Server CAL does go up, about 25%.
• The per-server license for Standard Edition remains the same price as before.
• The per-server license for BI server is the same price as the server license for SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise…though this isn’t an apples to apples comparison given the difference in SKU features.
• The per-core price for SQL 2012 Standard and Enterprise edition is one quarter the price of per-proc licenses for equivalent editions of SQL 2008 R2. So effectively, if you have more than 4 cores per physical processor in the server, your licensing fee goes up.”