I've searched and read similar topics about licensing questions for more than a few hours, but couldn't find any to answer my question.Basically I'm planning to use a Developer Edition for the following purposes:1. Mainly testing database backups: restoring database backups, checking the recovered databases with checkdb and then dropping the databases. This will be production data.2. Testing and developing TSQL scripts. Might be testing those on copies of production databases.3. Monitoring production databases: e.g. gathering information on database growth, capturing errors/warnings in error logs. This is done by making the server with Developer Edition a linked server on the production servers. Data is gathered in an 'admin' database on the Developer Edition.I'm pretty confident #1 and #2 won't pose a problem with Microsoft, but I'm unsure if #3 will be allowed, although the data gathered is purely to monitor health on our production databases/instances.Is there anyone who could shed some light on this please? or should I give MS a call?Thanks! :cool:
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