Don't get me wrong -- I'm grateful for enhancements. But then, that's the point of Software Assurance, that we pay a fee so that we have access to the...

When I talk about a failover server, I'm referring to a warm standby which is actively maintained as ready to go through either mirroring or its replacement, the availability groups....

I'm glad to see your post. You're facing the same issue we're facing at our organization. Microsoft is taking the position that if you don't have SA, you...

I'm perfectly comfortable with the per-core licensing. When they switched to the per-core licensing, they awarded per-core licenses according to how many cores were on your existing server. ...