| Kevin3NF 2006-11-15, 7:14 pm |
| I don't think replication servers qualify as passive, since they are
available to be used.
Passive nodes in a cluster do, and I think standby in log shipping does.
My personal opinion is that replication is a poor choice for DR...not really
what it was designed for.
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Kevin Hill
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"nanda" <nanda@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We have one prod server with SQL Server enterprise edition. we would like
> to
> setup dr site server with a prod database replicating data to dr site (not
> to
> use logshipping). the dr site is used only in case of disaster and primary
> prod server is unavailable. do we need additional license for dr site
> server. or will it come under passive server as mentioned in microsoft's
> sqlserver licensing
>
> thanks
> nanda
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