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

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

Security Features of Microsoft SQL Enterprise Like the Standard edition, Enterprise includes basic auditing, contained databases, encryption and backups, and user-defined roles. It surpasses the Standard edition with its inclusion of fine grained auditing, transparent database encryption, and extensible key management.

What is difference between Standard and Enterprise Edition?

While Enterprise edition features master data services, Standard does not. You can access specialized cloud capabilities to increase efficiency for advanced analytics enterprise workloads, data protection applications and services that use advanced technology.

Is SQL Server Standard or Enterprise?

The first is by using the functionality in SQL Server Management Studio and right clicking on the instance name and selecting Properties. In the general section you will see information such as on the following screenshots. The "Product version" or "Version" gives you a number of the version that is installed.

What is the difference between SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition?

Enterprise includes all the Standard and BI features, plus the "AlwaysOn" high-availability, ColumnStore datawarehousing functionality, and "Maximum virtualization" (for users with Software Assurance licenses). Enterprise has a 20-core max, while BI and Standard support 16 cores max.