Hi, I had installed an evalutaion edition of SQL
Once the product was purchased I then ran the edition upgrade with the Product Key which was on the Installation Media,after rebooting the server I run the follwowing Query to check the version of SQL
SELECT 'SQL_Server_Edition' AS 'Verion', SERVERPROPERTY('Edition') AS Type_Of_Edition
UNION
SELECT 'Version', @@VERSION
the results are as follows
Verion Type_Of_Edition
SQL_Server_Edition Standard Edition (64-bit)
Version Microsoft SQL Server 2014 - 12.0.2000.8 (X64)
Feb 20 2014 20:04:26
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.3 <X64> (Build 9600: ) (Hypervisor)
after which I ran the Following Query
SELECT create_date AS 'SQL Server Installed Date',
Expiry_date AS 'SQL Server Expiry Date',
DATEDIFF(dd,create_date, GETDATE()) 'No_of_Days_Used',
ABS(DATEDIFF(dd,expiry_date,GETDATE())) 'No_Of_Days_Left'
FROM
(SELECT sp.create_date,
DATEADD(dd, 180, sp.create_date) AS Expiry_date
FROM sys.server_principals sp
WHERE sp.name = 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM') as exp_date_tbs
The result is as per below
SQL Server Installed Date SQL Server Expiry Date No_of_Days_Used No_Of_Days_Left
2015-11-11 11:04:17.320 2016-05-09 11:04:17.320 145 35
My question is why is there still an expiration date?
will SQL stop working when it reaches the expiration date?
the version query displays the correct version of SQL "standard" and not"Evaluation"
please advise me