SQL Server 2014 Web edition is a low total-cost-of-ownership option for Web hosters and Web VAPs ( Value Added Providers ) to provide scalability, affordability and manageability capabilities for small to large scale Web properties.

SQL Server 2014 Web edition is designed to support internet-facing workloads and enables organizations to rapidly deploy web pages, applications, websites and services.

Cognosys Provides Hardened images of SQL Server on the cloud ( AWS marketplace, Azure and Google Cloud Platform).

Deploy SQl Servert securely on cloud i.e. AWS marketplace, Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

We also provide the different edition’s for SQL Server 2014 such as SQL Server Standard 2014, SQL Server 2014 Express and SQL Server Enterprise 2014.

SQL Server 2014 Web Edition on Cloud 

Major Features of SQL Server 2014 Web Edition

Simplify big data
Take advantage of non-relational data with PolyBase technology built in that allows you to query structured and unstructured data with the simplicity of T-SQL.

Mission critical intelligent applications
Deliver real-time operational intelligence by combining built-in advanced analytics and in-memory technology without having to move the data or impact end user performance.

Highest performing data warehouse
Scale to petabytes of data for enterprise-grade relational data warehousing—and integrate with non-relational sources like Hadoop—using scale out, massively parallel processing from Microsoft Analytics Platform System. Support small data marts to large enterprise data warehouses while reducing storage needs with enhanced data compression.

Mobile BI
Empower business users across the organization with the right insights on any mobile device.

Easy to use tools
Use the skills you already have, along with familiar tools like Azure Active Directory and SQL Server Management Studio, to manage your database infrastructure across on-premises SQL Server and Microsoft Azure. Apply industry-standard APIs across various platforms and download updated developer tools from Visual Studio to build next-generation web, enterprise, business intelligence and mobile applications.

• Installation Instructions For Windows

Installation Instructions For Windows

Note: How to find PublicDNS in AWS

Step 1) RDP  Connection: To connect to the deployed instance, Please follow Instructions to Connect to Windows  instance on AWS Cloud

1) Connect to the virtual machine using following RDP credentials:

• Hostname: PublicDNS  / IP of machine
• Port : 3389

Username: To connect to the operating system, use RDP and the username is Administrator.
Password: Please Click here to know how to get password

Step 2) SQL Connection: To Connect Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio in Windows server, Please follow Instructions to Connect Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

Step 3) Database Credentials: You can Login by below SQL Database credentials

         SQL UserName : sa ||  Password : Passw@rd123

Note: You can reset ‘sa’ password by using windows authentication to connect to local SQL instance. Please use localhost in the server name when connecting from inside the RDC

Note: Please change the password after the first login.

Step 4) Other Information:

1.Default ports:

• Windows Machines:  RDP Port – 3389
• Http: 80
• Https: 443
• SQL Server Port: 1433 this is by default not allowed on the firewall for security.

Configure custom inbound and outbound rules using this link

Installation Step by Step Screenshots

Installation Instructions for Windows

Step 1) VM Creation:

1. Click the Launch on Compute Engine button to choose the hardware and network settings

2. You can see at this page, an overview of Cognosys Image as well as estimated cost of running the instance.

3.In the settings page, you can choose the number of CPUs and amount of RAM, the disk size and type etc

Step 2) RDP Connection: To initialize local DB server connect to the deployed instance, Please follow Instructions to Connect to Windows instance on Google Cloud

Step 3) SQL Connection: To Connect Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio in windows server, Please follow Instructions to Connect Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

Step 4) Database Credentials:

You can Login by below SQL Database credentials

   SQL UserName : sa

The below screen appears after successful deployment of the image.

i) Please connect to Remote Desktop as given in step 2
ii) You can use SQL server instance as localhost. The SQL Server instance name to be used is “localhost” Connect to SQL Management Studio with username as sa and password provided in Custom Metadata.

If you have closed the deployment page you can also get the sa password from VM Details “Custom metadata” Section.

Step 5 ) Other Information:

1.Default installation path:  “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server ”
2.Default ports:

• Windows Machines:  RDP Port – 3389
• SQL server port:1433: By default, this is blocked on the Public interface for security reasons.