Redgate licensing covers the terms under which Redgate Software (Red Gate Software Limited, of Cambridge, England) licenses its database tools. The main products are the SQL Toolbelt bundles, SQL Prompt, SQL Compare, Redgate Flyway, Redgate Monitor, SQL Backup, and the test data products Redgate Test Data Manager, SQL Clone and Data Masker.[1][5] Redgate publishes four licence agreements: a Master Perpetual EULA, a Master Subscription EULA, a Master SaaS Subscription Agreement, and a Retired Software EULA for withdrawn products.[3] Catalog proof: Redgate publishes four EULAs: perpetual, subscription, SaaS and retired.
New business is sold as subscriptions. Redgate’s support site says the company “historically sold ‘lifetime’ perpetual licenses”. A subscription includes support and upgrades while it is active, and access is lost if it is not renewed.[7] Under the Subscription EULA, Redgate grants “a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and use the Subscription Software during the Subscription Period”. Web-published Product Specific Terms, incorporated into the EULA, add the metric rules.[1][4] Catalog proof: A Redgate subscription includes support and upgrades while active.
Editions
Redgate’s “License types by product” page assigns each subscription product one of four licence types and lists the contents of each bundle.[5]
| Product or bundle | Licence type | Notes | Deeper article |
|---|---|---|---|
| SQL Toolbelt Essentials | Per User | SQL Compare Pro, SQL Data Compare Pro, SQL Prompt Pro, SQL Source Control, SQL Doc and others, plus Redgate Data Modeler (SaaS) | Monitor and SQL Toolbelt |
| SQL Toolbelt and SQL Toolbelt Enterprise | Per User desktop tools; Per Server Monitor and SQL Backup | Monitor Standard or Enterprise included | Monitor and SQL Toolbelt |
| SQL Prompt Professional, SQL Compare Professional | Per User | Also sold inside the Toolbelts | Monitor and SQL Toolbelt |
| Redgate Monitor Standard and Enterprise | Per Server | Self-hosted or SaaS | Monitor and SQL Toolbelt |
| SQL Backup Professional | Per Server | Every cluster node licensed | Monitor and SQL Toolbelt |
| Redgate Flyway Enterprise, Teams | Per User (Teams per schema if licensed before 2022-09-01) | Community is Freeware | Flyway licensing |
| Redgate Test Data Manager, SQL Clone, Data Masker, SQL Provision | Per Capacity | Production data volume in TB | Monitor and SQL Toolbelt |
Pricing pages quote SQL Toolbelt Essentials “per user / year”, and Redgate Monitor “per server / year”. Each has volume bands of 1-4, 5-9 and 10-19, and 20 or more by quote.[11][12] The amounts are loaded dynamically and are not recorded in the catalog.
Metrics
- Per User. “The Subscription Software is licensed for use by a specific user only.” The licensed user may use it on more than one Server.[4] Redgate’s documentation adds that a user may activate the product on as many devices as needed, such as a work machine, a home laptop and a VM, by signing in with a Redgate ID.[6] Catalog proof: Per User Software may be used only by the specific licensed user; A per-user licence may be activated on as many devices as the user needs.
- Per Server. The Server Component is licensed for “a single Server owned, leased and/or controlled by You for Your internal use”.[4] The Redgate Monitor server license applies this rule to monitored servers and cloud databases.
- Per Capacity. Priced on “the total volume of data in all production databases” that are provisioned, masked, subset or synthesised.[8]
- Per Schema. A legacy Flyway Teams metric covering “a single Schema … in a production environment”.[4]
- Flyway Per User license. Needed by every contributor of database changes to a Flyway pipeline. See Redgate Flyway licensing.
Counting / floors
User-based products are assigned to people in the Redgate Customer Portal. Server-based products are tied to a server by signing in with a licence administrator account (Redgate Monitor) or by entering a serial key (SQL Backup).[6] In bundles that mix types, such as SQL Toolbelt, the licence is split into “Desktop tools and Backup and Monitoring licenses”. Users are allocated to the desktop tools, and individual servers to the backup and monitoring licences.[6] If there are more servers than users, extra server licences must be bought.[7]
Capacity products use tiers of 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 TB, and a customer between tiers “must purchase the higher tier”. Redgate Test Data Manager is sold in 1 TB increments.[8] Per Capacity and Per Schema licences carry an annual True Up, reported within 10 days of the end of the Subscription Period. Redgate may suspend the licence until the True Up is received, and the rule also applies to such products inside per-user bundles.[4] Catalog proof: Capacity licences: buy the tier covering total production data; Redgate may suspend capacity or schema licences until the True Up is received; Per-user bundles containing capacity or schema products still require True Up.
Virtualization & partitioning
Redgate defines a Server as “all or part of an operating system instance, or all or part of virtual (or other emulated) operating system instance”. It must have separate machine identity or administrative rights. “A physical hardware system can have one physical Server and/or one more virtual Servers.”[4] Each virtual machine is therefore a Server for Per Server products. Clusters need an entitlement for every Server in the cluster, for both Redgate Monitor and SQL Backup Professional.[4] Per-user products are not tied to hardware. Catalog proof: A Server is a physical or virtual operating system instance; Redgate Monitor: every cluster node needs a licence, including passive nodes; SQL Backup Pro needs an entitlement for every Server in a cluster.
Cloud / BYOL
The Product Specific Terms give explicit cloud ratios for per-server entitlements. For Redgate Monitor, one entitlement covers 1 Azure Managed Instance, 1 Azure Flexible Server or up to 5 single Azure SQL Databases. On AWS it covers 1 Amazon RDS instance or 1 Aurora DB instance (writer or reader), and on Google it covers 1 Cloud SQL instance. For SQL Data Catalog, it covers 1 managed instance or up to 5 Azure SQL Databases, or 1 RDS database.[4] Redgate Monitor is also offered as a Redgate-hosted SaaS service under the Master SaaS Subscription Agreement and through the AWS and Azure Marketplaces.[9][12] Catalog proof: Redgate Monitor on Azure: one Managed Instance, one Flexible Server or five Azure SQL Databases per entitlement; Redgate Monitor on AWS: one RDS or Aurora DB instance per entitlement.
Programs
- Evaluation Period. A free trial of any software other than Freeware. Its length is set on the product page. If the customer does not buy, it must destroy the software.[1]
- Subscription Period and automatic renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically for 12 or 36 months unless notice is given 30 days before the end.[1]
- Support Package for perpetual licences, and the Support policy. Response targets range from 10 hours (P1) to 36 hours (P4).[2][10]
- Freeware and Community editions. Flyway Community and SQL Search are Freeware. The pgCompare and Schema Compare for MySQL Community editions are free only for small businesses, education and non-commercial open-source projects.[4]
- Retired Software and Recurring Billing.
Contract details are covered in Redgate EULAs, support and renewals.
Audits and compliance
The Subscription and Perpetual EULAs contain the same audit clause. “Where the business model and payment for any Subscription Software is dependent on Your level of use (e.g. number of people or servers)”, Redgate may “inspect Your records annually”. It may do so itself or through third-party agents, during normal business hours.[1][2] The SaaS Agreement has a matching clause.[9] There is no notice period or cost-shifting provision. Licences are personal and may not be assigned without Redgate’s written consent.[1] Catalog proof: Redgate may inspect records annually where pricing depends on use; Usage-priced perpetual licences may be inspected annually; Redgate licences are personal and cannot be transferred without consent. See software license audit and true-up.
Out of scope
- Negotiated enterprise agreements, quotes and channel partner terms. Payment terms agreed with a channel partner replace the EULA’s payment clause.[1]
- List price amounts, which the pricing pages load dynamically.[11]
- .NET products (.NET Reflector, ANTS profilers, SmartAssembly) beyond their licence type on the editions page.[5]
- Third-party redistributables bundled in Redgate tools (Devart, DevExpress, Actipro and others), which are licensed for use only with Redgate products.[4]