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Do you mean you take RDP of the SQL Server machine ..<br />
If so, then a device license would suffice but how other users are going to connect to your SQL Server.<br />
If all the users would be connecting to SQL Server using RDP, RDP licensing is more costlier for your Windows Server machine.<br />
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Instead you can open up Remote connections to SQLS erver and connect to SQL Server directly from a local machine via Citrix with a User based license..
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Do you mean you take RDP of the SQL Server machine ..
If so, then a device license would suffice but how other users are going to connect to your SQL Server.
If all the users would be connecting to SQL Server using RDP, RDP licensing is more costlier for your Windows Server machine.

Instead you can open up Remote connections to SQLS erver and connect to SQL Server directly from a local machine via Citrix with a User based license..

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&nbsp;thanks rrjegan17! <br />
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&nbsp;Here is the planned scenario: all Users will logon to Citrix, from there they will connect using RDP to an XP-based machine with a planning software and having SQL server as its database. <br />
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 thanks rrjegan17!

 Here is the planned scenario: all Users will logon to Citrix, from there they will connect using RDP to an XP-based machine with a planning software and having SQL server as its database.

 

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More about licensing types here:<br />
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/client-access-license.aspx" rel="ugc">http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/client-access-license.aspx</a><br />
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Device CAL suits your current requirement..
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More about licensing types here:
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/client-access-license.aspx [http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/client-access-license.aspx]

Device CAL suits your current requirement..

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Questions:<br />
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1) How many users are you talking about?<br />
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2) You said &quot;connect using RDP to <b><u>AN</u></b> &nbsp;XP based machine.&quot; &nbsp;An implies ONE XP machine. &nbsp;Is that correct?<br />
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Are you using XenDesktop ?
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Questions:

1) How many users are you talking about?

2) You said "connect using RDP to AN  XP based machine."  An implies ONE XP machine.  Is that correct?

Are you using XenDesktop ?

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&nbsp;If i logon to Citrix and connect to a server via RDP, what is the best licensing option for this scenario? thanks
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 If i logon to Citrix and connect to a server via RDP, what is the best licensing option for this scenario? thanks

question about User and Device CALs

Microsoft SQL Server is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.SQL Server is available in multiple versions, typically identified by release year, and versions are subdivided into editions to distinguish between product functionality. Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning.

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Citrix is the synonym for the virtualization and application infrastructure systems developed by the company of the same name. Main areas are application virtualization, Software-As-A-Service (SaaS), cloud-computing and networking. The two most well-known are Citrix XenApp or Citrix CloudPlatform.