May 4, 2012 at 11:45 am
We're upgrading one of our systems to 2008 r2. We have a production server with a mirrored standby, and a test server to test application updates. A licensing question popped up. Both the production server and the standby server will be running 2008 r2 enterprise. Can we put developer on the test system? Are application upgrades acceptable for developer edition or are we breaching licenses there?
Also, this is a major upgrade coming up, so our path was to use the future production server as the pre-production server to implement all of our testing, then eventually move it into production as our production server. Our old server would then be downgraded to our test server. Can you downgrade Enterprise edition to Developer edition?
May 4, 2012 at 12:04 pm
Best thing to do is contact Microsoft.
Technically, as long as no users make changes to database objects (CREATE/ALTER/DROP tables, stored procedures, functions, etc), then you can use the Developers Edition in a test environment.
But again, I want to stress that you really need to talk to Microsoft about what you are looking at doing.
All comments here are not legal fact and are only my opinion.
May 4, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Developer Edition allows developers to build and test any type of application with SQL Server on 32-bit, ia64, and x64 platforms. Developer Edition includes all of the functionality of Enterprise Edition, but is licensed only for development, test, and demo use. Each license of SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition entitles one developer to use the software on as many systems as necessary and additional developers can use the software by purchasing additional licenses.
May 4, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Lynn Pettis (5/4/2012)
All comments here are not legal fact and are only my opinion.
of course 🙂
Geoff A (5/4/2012)
Developer Edition allows developers to build and test any type of application with SQL Server on 32-bit, ia64, and x64 platforms. Developer Edition includes all of the functionality of Enterprise Edition, but is licensed only for development, test, and demo use. Each license of SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition entitles one developer to use the software on as many systems as necessary and additional developers can use the software by purchasing additional licenses.
Thanks for the info, both of you
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