If I licensed SQL Server EE for production work on one server, SA allows me a free failover replica on another server if not used even R/O during normal operation. MSDN allows me to run SQL Server EE for development and testing. Can I use the developer instance of SQL Server EE as the replica partner for production AlwaysOn AGs if no access was ever made to production data unless a failover had occurred? If I am allowed to do this, and it works, this would save me the associated cost and maintenance with setting up a 3rd VM for the SQL Server partner replica. If not allowed by the license, please provide a reference that covers this scenario. If not desired or possible to do this technically, please explain why. Thanks so much, Dave
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