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Provide your organization with the foundation for a comprehensive information platform that helps you get the most value out of your database environment by using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. Plus, you get a range of editions with new features to choose from to meet the needs of organizations both large and small, including new premium editions for large-scale data centers and data warehouses. SQL Server 2008 R2 further enhances your scalability potential by supporting up to 256 logical processors. Compare SQL Server 2008 R2 with competitive database solutions. You can also compare different editions of SQL Server 2008 R2 by capability or learn more about all editions.

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SQL SERVER 2008 R2 EDITIONS OVERVIEW

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Scalability and Performance

Enterprise

Standard

Express

Number of CPUs

Maximum memory utilized Maximum database size

2 TB

64 GB

1 GB

524 PB

524 PB

10 GB

IA64 hardware support

Resource governor Table and index partitioning

Parallel index operations

Parallel consistency checks (DBCC) Enhanced read-ahead scan

Scalable shared databases

Indexed views Distributed Partition Views

EVIDENCE
SQL Server 2008 R2 Performance and Scalability Whitepaper (173KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 Performance and Scalability Datasheet (88KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 Performance and Scalability Presentation (1.8MB PPT)

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High Availability

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Enterprise

Standard

Express

Online system changes

Log shipping Yes (single thread, synchronous only)

Database mirroring2

Witness only

Automatic corruption recovery from mirror

Log stream compression Number of Failover clustering nodes 16 2

Backup compression

Mirrored backups Database snapshots

Fast recovery Online indexing

Online page and file restore

Online configuration of Peer to Peer nodes Hot add memory and CPU support

EVIDENCE
SQL Server 2008 R2 High Availability Datasheet (213KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 High Availability Technologies Whitepaper (94KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 High Availability Technical Overview (213KB DOCX)

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Virtualization Support

Enterprise

Standard

Express

Hypervisor support

Guest failover clustering support for virtualization

Hyper-V live migration Application mobility

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SQL Server 2008 R2 Virtualization Datasheet (101KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 Best Practices in a Hyper-V Environment (241KB DOCX) SQL Sustainability Whitepaper (1.2MB DOCX)

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Replication

Enterprise

Standard

Express

Snapshot replication

Subscriber only

Merge replication

Subscriber only

EVIDENCE
SQL Server 2008 Replication and Database Mirroring Whitepaper (190KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 Replication Technical Article (939KB DOCX)

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Enterprise Transactional replication

Standard

Express Subscriber only

SQL Server change tracking

Publishing data from SQL Server to non SQL Server subscribers

Publishing data from Oracle to SQL Server Peer to Peer replication

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SQL Server 2008 Replication and Database Mirroring Whitepaper (190KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 Replication Technical Article (939KB DOCX)

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Enterprise Security

Enterprise

Standard

Express

Windows Integrated Authentication (including Kerberos)

Integration with Microsoft baseline security analyzer

C2 compliant audit mode1 Common criteria compliance

Data encryption and key management

Module signing Transport Layer Security channel encryption

Windows password policy support User-schema separation

Login triggers and connection endpoints

Secure configuration through policy-based management SQL Server audit (fine-grained auditing)

Transparent database encryption

Extensible key management EVIDENCE

SQL Server 2008 R2 Security and Compliance Datasheet (163KB PDF) SQL Server 2008 Security Overview Whitepaper (272KB DOCX) Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Whitepaper (121KB DOCX)

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Single Instance RDBMS Management

Enterprise

Standard

Express

Policy-Based Management PowerShell support

SQL Server Management Object (SMO)

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Enterprise Sysprep support1 SQL Server connection director

Standard

Express

Dedicated admin connection

Yes (Under trace flag)

Policy automation (check on schedule and change) Maintenance plans

Database mail

Performance data collector System Center Operations Manager Management Pack

Plan guides

User instances

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Application and Multi-Instance Management

Enterprise

Standard

Express

Support for data-tier application (DAC) operations - extract, deploy, upgrade Able to enroll for multi-instance management.

Multi-instance dashboard views and drilldowns

Policy-based resource utilization evaluation EVIDENCE

SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-Instance Datasheet (432KB PDF) SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-server Management FAQs (48KB DOCX) Application And Multi-Server Management Intro Whitepaper for DBAs (743KB DOCX)

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Management Tools

Enterprise

Standard

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SQL Server Configuration Manager SQL CMD (command prompt tool)

SQL Server Migration Assistant1

SQL Server Management Studio2 SQL Server Agent

Database Engine Tuning Advisor

SQL Server Profiler Analysis Services, PowerPivot IT operation dashboard

EVIDENCE
SQL Server 2008 R2 Manageability Datasheet (438.51KB PDF) SQL 2008 R2 Manageability Whitepaper (1.34MB DOC) SQL Server 2008 R2 Manageability Presentation (4.31MB PPTX)

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Development Tools

Enterprise

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Microsoft Visual Studio Integration IntelliSense (Transact-SQL and MDX)

Business Intelligence Development Studio

SQL query, edit and design tools Version control support

MDX edit, debug, and design tools

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SQL Server 2008 R2 Programmability Datasheet (139KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 Application Development Datasheet (113KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Data Platform Development Whitepaper (72KB DOCX)

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Programmability

Enterprise

Standard

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Entity Framework support Common language runtime (CLR) integration

Native XML support

XML indexing MERGE and UPSERT capabilities

FILESTREAM support

Date and Time data types Internationalization support

Full-text search

Specification of language in query Service Broker (messaging) Client only

XML/A support

Web services (HTTP/SOAP endpoints) T-SQL endpoints

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SQL Server 2008 R2 ADO.NET Data Services Datasheet (192KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 LINQ Datasheet (171KB DOCX) What's New for XML in SQL Server 2008 Datasheet (75KB DOCX)

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Spatial and Location Services

Enterprise

Standard

Express

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SQL Server 2008 R2 Spatial Data Datasheet (333KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 Spatial Data Whitepaper (537KB DOCX) Delivering Location Intelligence with Spatial Data (537KB DOCX)

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Enterprise Planar and geodetic data types Spatial indexes

Standard

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Advanced spatial libraries

Import/export of industry-standard spatial data formats Spatial results tab within SQL Server Management Studio

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SQL Server 2008 R2 Spatial Data Datasheet (333KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 Spatial Data Whitepaper (537KB DOCX) Delivering Location Intelligence with Spatial Data (537KB DOCX)

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Complex Event Processing (StreamInsight)

Enterprise

Standard

Express

Premium edition

Standard edition

For more information about the editions of StreamInsight, see Choosing a StreamInsight Edition.

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Integration Services-Advanced Adapters

Enterprise

Standard

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High performance Oracle destination

High performance Teradata destination SAP BW source and destination

Data mining model training destination adapter

Dimension processing destination adapter Partition processing destination adapter

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Integration Services--Advanced Transforms

Enterprise

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Persistence (high performance) lookups Data mining query transformation

Fuzzy grouping and lookup transformations

Term extractions and lookup transformations

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Data Warehouse

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Enterprise

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Auto-generate staging and data warehouse schema

Change data capture Data compression

Star join query optimization

Automatic query-to-indexed-view matching Scalable read-only AS configuration

Proactive caching

Parallel query processing on partitioned tables and indices Partitioned cubes

Distributed partitioned cubes

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An Introduction to New Data Warehouse Scalability Features in SQL Server 2008 R2 (276KB DOCX) Data Warehouse 2.0 and SQL Server Architecture and Vision Whitepaper (327KB DOCX)

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Analysis Services

Enterprise

Standard

Express

SQL Server Analysis Services backup

Dimension, attribute relationship, aggregate, and cube design Translations

Personalization extensions SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint

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SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Datasheet (266KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Overview Whitepaper (901KB DOCX)

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Analysis Services-Advanced Analytic Functions

Enterprise

Standard

Express

Financial aggregations

Partitioned cubes and distributed partitioned cubes

Custom rollups Semi-additive measures

Writeback dimensions

Linked measures and dimensions Binary and compressed XML transport

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PowerPivot for Excel 2010 datasheet (937KB PDF) PowerPivot FAQs (49KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 PowerPivot Planning and Deployment Whitepaper (2.95MB DOCX)

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Enterprise Account intelligence Perspectives

Standard

Express

Scalable shared databases

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PowerPivot for Excel 2010 datasheet (937KB PDF) PowerPivot FAQs (49KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 PowerPivot Planning and Deployment Whitepaper (2.95MB DOCX)

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Data Mining

Enterprise

Standard

Express

Comprehensive set of data mining algorithms

Integrated data mining tools: wizards, editors, model viewers, query builder Cross validation

Advanced configuration and tuning options for data mining algorithms Support for pipeline data mining and text mining with Integration Services

Support for plug-in algorithms

Parallel model processing Sequence prediction

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SQL Server 2008 R2 Predictive Analysis Datasheet (176KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 Data Mining Whitepaper (568KB DOCX)

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Reporting

Enterprise

Standard

Express

Reporting Services memory limits

OS Maximum

OS Maximum

4 GB

Allowed catalog DB SQL Server edition

SQL Server SQL Server Standard, SQL Standard, SQL Server Server Enterprise and Enterprise and SQL Server SQL Server Datacenter Datacenter

SQL Server Express

Allowed data source SQL Server edition

All

All

SQL Server Express

Report server

Report Designer

Report Manager Reports as data feeds

Enhanced gauges and charting

Maps and map layers

EVIDENCE
SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Datasheet (530KB PDF) SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0 FAQs (55.9KB DOCX)

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Enterprise Custom authentication Export to Excel, Word, PDF, and images

Standard

Express

Role Based Security

Create Custom Roles

No (Fixed roles only)

Model support

Model Item Security

Infinite click-through E-mail and file share subscriptions and scheduling

Report history, executing snapshots, and caching

SharePoint integration Shared component library

Remote and non-relational data source support Data source, delivery, and rendering extensibility

Report definition customization extension (RDCE)

Data-driven report subscriptions Scale out deployment (Web farms)

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SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Datasheet (530KB PDF) SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0 FAQs (55.9KB DOCX)

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Business Intelligence Clients

Enterprise

Standard

Express

Report Builder 3.0 for Ad Hoc Reporting

Excel 2007 and Visio 2007 Add-in support

PowerPivot for Excel EVIDENCE

SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Datasheet (960KB DOC) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Whitepaper (9.1MB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Presentation (5.63MB PPTX)

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Master Data Services

Enterprise

Standard

Express

Master Data Services database Master Data Manager Web application

Master Data Services Web service EVIDENCE

Introduction to Master Data Services Whitepaper (63KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services FAQ (49KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services Datasheet (248KB PDF)

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Introduction to Master Data Services Whitepaper (63KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services FAQ (49KB DOCX) SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services Datasheet (248KB PDF)

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