SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise vs Standard, one Geek Girl's view...

Geeky Girl - SQL Server Enterprise vs Standard

"SQL Server 2008 R2 comes with a lot of features and functionality. Even the Standard version has a long list of capabilities to set DBAs drooling. But then there’s the Enterprise version. A question that comes up, more often than we’d like, is, “Why would I need Enterprise?” If there are so many features available out of the box with SQL Server Standard, why go to the Enterprise version?

If you want to go into it feature-by-feature, the SQL Server website has a comparison site which allows you to look at the features under various headings and see which versions of the product those features are included in.

But if you don’t want to go through the whole list, here are my thoughts on some key ones.

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I get asked this a work a good bit, "What version of SQL Server... Why do you want Enterprise?" and so wanted to capture this "human readable" comparison of a few differences.

 

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