“The secondary server used for failover support does not need to be separately licensed for SQL Server as
long as it is truly passive. If it is serving data, such as reports to clients running active SQL Server workloads,
or performing any “work” such as additional backups being made from secondary servers, then it must be
licensed for SQL Server.”
My question is that if I set up Transactional Replication between the Primary and a Reporting Server, to make it so replication works after a failover I need a downstream distributor and the Secondary needs to be setup as a Publisher as well.
Is the Secondary still truly 'passive' in this scenario? Does it affect the license requirements of the Secondary?
Thanks,
John Lancashire, Direct Wines Ltd.