What is the difference between SQL Server Editions?

What are the differences among SQL Server Editions?

The most well known differences between SQL Express and other editions are the caps on database size (10GB) and lack of a SQL Agent feature. There are many other differences though, some of which can be extremely important for some application and architecture requirements.

Which edition of SQL Server should I use?

You use Standard Edition – because it supports 128GB RAM (and can even go beyond that for some internal stuff like query plans.) You want to stay here until 2025-2026 – this version has more years left in its support life than SQL Server 2012/2014, so you can install it once and stick around longer.

What is the difference between SQL Server Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition?

While the Enterprise edition of SQL Server 2016 does support a wide array of data warehouse features, the Standard edition only supports standard algorithms and data mining tools (Wizards, Editors, Query Builders).

What is SQL Server version history and different editions?

SQL Server is defined as a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Microsoft. T-SQL means Transact-SQL, a propriety Language by Microsoft. Microsoft and Sybase released version 1.0 in 1989. Various Editions of SQL Server are Enterprise, Standard, Web, Developer, and Express.