Do you need 1 or 2 SQL licenses to install RS on separate web server?

Plese help with this issue by reading and responding!!!

If you install

Reporting Services 2005 on a separate web server from the database engine do you

need 1 or 2 SQL licenses? It's a more complex issue than it initially appears to

be. Please go to the following thread and read the bottom of page 1 and page

2.

Please help verify this! Page 2 contains a post with 5

steps that you can perform to verify that only 1 license is actually

need!

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=198900&SiteID=1

Note: Unfortunately this discussion got started in a

off topic thread in the wrong category. I wrote this thread so that interested

people could find it.

I am pretty sure that you need a license for each if you separate them. This is a scenerio page from MS:

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/howtolicensers.mspx

|||steveareno,

The "license.txt" file that ships on the SQL 2005 install disks says the exact opposite.

Thanks,
Greg|||I'm shocked by the lack of interest in this. SQL licenses are quite expensive after all.

Is anyone out there planning to run Reporting Services on a separate server from the SQL database engine? I figued that would be a common configuration but maybe I'm wrong?

Thanks,
Greg Van Mullem|||I'm puzzled as to what more information you're looking for. The information in the link provided by steveareno tells you all you need to know.|||I found out the answer to my question. Here it is:

You only need 1 SQL license to install RS 2005 on a separate web server!

Thanks for the help with this it's quite confusing because some of the docs on Microsoft's web site are bogus!

Read the "license.txt" file that ships on the SQL 2005 standard edition disk if you don't believe me.

Thanks,
Greg Van Mullem