First, thank you for the suggestions. And you ask all good questions, which I will pass to the customer. I would much rather that their IT buy the server and the box to run it on. And to set up the backup. But I am a cheap whore they are using me.

>2012 should work fine.
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>Standard Edition is sufficient for most installs, but Express may work.
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>I believe that 2012 is licensed per core.
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>The cost can vary widely. If the company already has Microsoft Software Assurance, it may cost signficantly less than if you buy it yourself.
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>It shouldn't take more than a couple of hours to get it installed.
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>Have you thought about the hardware it will run on? How much RAM, size of drives and mulitple drives? I recommend installing SQL Server on the system drive, the database on another, and the log file on a third. What about backups?
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>>Hi,
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>>A customer wants me to buy SQL Server from Microsoft for them, install it, and use with my VFP application. My questions are:
>>1. What version should I suggest (SQL 2012?). Currently my app works with SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 but I never tested on 2012.
>>2. What type of license. I don't want to offer them express edition.
>>3. What would be the approximate cost of SQL Server?
>>4. How much time (hours) should I estimate it would take me to install and set up their SQL Server? (this would be done via remote connection since they are out of state).
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>>TIA for any suggestions.