![]() Pretty great deal, eh? Why not just use SKUUPGRADE? When an environment is being used for development, it can be licensed with free Developer Edition ( even if you do user acceptance testing in it).Īnd Developer Edition has all the features of Enterprise Edition. Whee! It’s always so much fun when you can save a lot of licensing costs. Some people on the Internet suggest copying the system databases before re-installing to the same patch level then copying the previous system databases back in. What’s the simplest way of changing a SQL Server in this way? It looks like an uninstall / re-install but there’s an awful lot of objects on that Server - Databases, Security, Linked Servers, SSIS, Triggers, so a lot of work. ![]() ![]() the Servers are truly Development servers, with nothing Production going anywhere near (either data or people). I have discovered a tranche of potential money saving by replacing SQL Server Enterprise Edition with SQL Server Developer Edition where appropriate. I got a great question about Edition downgrades recently.
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