I'm trying to understand how many licenses I may need if we decide to pursue a SQL Server Developer license for our Testing environment.
We would have 5 actual developer and DBA's physically accessing the database to perform work.
The part where I get confused is our users will be testing our applications from a web server. This webserver will communicate with a 'logic' server that will perform all the database interaction.
At our highest level of testing we probably have 20 users on the system, but depending on the time of year they may be different users. Example: During fiscal year end we may have 20 people from account on the system, but during benefit enrollment time of year we may have 20 HR/Payroll users testing on the system.
In reading different sets of documentation(Article 1)(Article 2) and speaking to our license reseller I still do not have a clear idea of how many licenses I need.
I think I can purchase 5 for the actual developers/DBA's and one license for each SQL accounts the services uses?
This is the how we are structured currently. The servers have SQL Server accounts for authentication
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