Upgrading SQL Evaluation to Volume License – No. Geek. Left. Behind. THE SCENARIOYou’ve installed SQL 2. R2 (or newer) in 1. The project is successful and you get a green light. The client purchases SQL through Microsoft Volume Licensing. You want to simply add the license key to the SQL server that’s currently in evaluation mode, activate it, and move on. THE RUBAnd if you look up your keys in Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (MS VLSC), there are no keys for SQL. And the second problem is that even if you had the key, the location to enter the SQL key on the trial server isn’t very obvious. SOLUTION 1 – How to Get Your MS VLSC SQL Key. CodePlex is the project hosting site for Microsoft SQL Server Samples and Community Projects. Projects listed here are official Microsoft samples for SQL Server (. ![]() If you call Microsoft Volume License support, they will tell you that the keys are imbedded in the product (which is true) and that they can not give you the key information (which may or may not be true, depending on who you’re talking to). Even worse, the VLSC tech support folks will advise you to remove the SQL installation, download the VLSC ISO, and install FROM SCRATCH. This is a complete waste of time and a bunch of garbage! Side note: I asked the VLSC support specialist why there’s a place to enter the key in SQL if the Volume License version of SQL doesn’t have a key. She said “That key is just for if you purchase Retail SQL”. Again, this is complete garbage! ![]() ![]()
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