Which benefits are included with Software Assurance for Microsoft SQL Server 2016?
High availability (only Standard and Enterprise edition)
- passive instance do not need to be licensed
- requirements:
- there may only exist one passive instance for each licensed instance
- the passive instance may not use more cores than the active instance
- as a company, the passive instance may only be hosted in the Cloud
License mobility (only Standard and Enterprise edition)
- SQL Server licenses may be reassigned to different servers within a server farm as often as needed
- requirements:
- licenses may only be reassigned to a different server farm or to a non-private cloud once every 90 days (Exception: permanent hardware failure)
Sources:
Microsoft Product Terms, August 2017
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Licensing Guide_as is 2016-08-28