Hi, is it possible to setup mirroring between two SQL 2008 R2 servers in that one sql server is on Standard version and the mirror server is on SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise version. The reason is that, we are having performance issues and that we don't want to upgrade to sql 2008 R2 Ent, however, by setting up the mirroring, we hope to test by switching to (making the Ent node as a primary) and see if there are any performance improvements.
we are not yet ready to move to SQL 2016 (as we have tons of stored procs and schema and not sure if it there is an easier way to upgrade. When we ran the upgrade scripts, it failed so we figured it might be an effort to upgrade. while upgrade may take time, we thought of setting up mirroring and see if we can gain some improvements (which are now impacted with it). Ultimately, we are going to SQl 2016 if there is a quicker way to get there, we would love to hear. Any thoughts are appreciated.