Request you to please help me with the below customer question
Question
We have a customer who is looking to migrate some SQL servers from 2012 to 2016 but we are trying to find the right way to do this. We don’t want them to have to buy 2 licenses per server as they are doing the migration. Do you have a way to find the migration rights for SQL 2016 to see if they are allowed to migrate over to another server or server cluster?
Are they allowed to use the migration license on the new server where they are migrating toward and on the existing server they are decommissioning at the same time?
From my understanding the customer may upgrade to and use SQL version 2016in place of software covered by the Qualifying License i.e. SQL server 2012 licensed with active SA .The Customer may not use software under both licenses simultaneously. Can you please confirm if my understanding is correct .
Thanks in advance for your support on this.