2. Datacenter Enterprise Standard Express
Number of CPUs OS maximum 8 4 1
Maximum memory utilized (GB) OS maximum 2,000 64 1
Maximum database size (GB) 524,000,000 524,000,000 524,000,000 10
Resource governor X X
Table and index partitioning X X
Parallel index operations X X
Parallel consistency checks (DBCC) X X
Enhanced read-ahead scan X X
Scalable shared databases X X
Indexed views X X
Distributed Partition Views X X
Scalability and Performance
3. Datacenter Enterprise Standard Express
Online system changes X X X X
Log shipping X X X
Database mirroring2 Yes* Witness
Automatic corruption recovery from
mirror X X X
Log stream compression X X X
Number of Failover clustering nodes 16 16 2
Backup compression X X X
Mirrored backups X X
Database snapshots X X
Fast recovery X X
Online indexing X X
Online page and file restore X X
Online configuration of Peer to Peer X X
Hot add memory and CPU support X X
* Single Threaded, Synchronous Only
High Availability
4. Datacenter Enterprise Standard Express
Subscriber
Snapshot replication X X X
only
Subscriber
Merge replication X X X
only
Subscriber
Transactional replication X X X
only
SQL Server change tracking X X X X
Publishing data from SQL Server to
X X X
non SQL Server subscribers
Publishing data from Oracle to SQL Server X X
Peer to Peer replication X X
Replication
5. Datacenter Enterprise Standard Express
Windows Integrated Authentication (inc Kerberos) X X X X
Int with Microsoft baseline security analyzer X X X X
1
C2 compliant audit mode X X X X
Common criteria compliance X X X X
Data encryption and key management X X X X
Module signing X X X X
Transport Layer Security channel encryption X X X X
Windows password policy support X X X X
User-schema separation X X X X
Login triggers and connection endpoints X X X X
Secure configuration through policy-based X X X X
management
SQL Server audit (fine-grained auditing) X X
Transparent database encryption X X
Extensible key management X X
Enterprise Security
6. Datacenter Enterprise Standard Express
Policy-Based Management X X X X
PowerShell support X X X X
SQL Server Management Object (SMO) X X X X
1
SysPrep support X X X X
SQL Server connection director X X X X
Dedicated admin connection X X X X
(w/trace)
Policy automation (check on schedule/change) X X X
Maintenance plans X X X
Database mail X X X
Performance data collector X X X
System Center Operations Manager Management X X X
Pack
Plan guides X X X
User instances X
Single Instance RDBMS
7. Datacenter Enterprise Standard Express
Support for data-tier application (DAC) operations –
X X X X
extract, deploy, upgrade
1 2
Able to enroll for multi-instance management. X X X
2
Multi-instance dashboard views and drilldowns X X
2
Policy-based resource utilization evaluation X X
1
Supports a SQL Server utility control point with a
maximum of 200 managed instances of SQL Server
2
Supports a SQL Server utility control point with a
maximum of 25 managed instances of SQL Server
App and Multi Instance RDBMS