Compare Edition Features in SQL Server 2008

Features Enterprise Standard Workgroup Web Express Features Enterprise Standard Workgroup Web Express
Number of CPUs OS Maximum 4 2 CPU 4 CPU 1 CPU SQL Server Import and Export Wizard ● ● ● ● ●
Memory Utilization OS Maximum OS Maximum 4 GB Ram OS Maximum 1 GB Ram Log Providers and Logging ● ●

Database Size Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited 4GB

XML Source ● ●

Integration Services
SSIS Run-time ● ●
Multi-Instance Support 50 instances 16 16 16 16
Basic Data Profiling Tools ● ●
x32 Hardware Support ● ● ● ● ●
Scalability & Performance

SSIS Package Designer & Service ● ●

x64 Hardware Support ● ● ● ● ●
Data Mining Query Transformation ●
Dynamic Address Windows Extensions Memory Management ● ●
Data Mining Model Training Destination Adapter ●
Data Compression ●
Fuzzy Grouping Transformation ●
Resource Governor ● Fuzzy Lookup Transformation ●
I64 Hardware Support ● Term Extraction Transformation ●
Hypervisor Support ● ● ● ● ● Dimension Processing Destination Adapter ●
Table and Index Partitioning ● Partition Processing Destination Adapter ●
Parallel Index Operations ● Detailed Feature Comparison Enterprise Standard Workgroup Web Express
Parallel Consistency Checks (DBCC) ● Analysis Services Backup ● ●
Scalable Shared Databases ● Dimension, Attribute Relationship, Aggregate & Cube Design ● ●
Indexed Views ● Personalization Extensions ● ●

Analysis Services
Enhanced Read-ahead and Scan ● Analysis Services Scalable Shared Databases ●
Features Enterprise Standard Workgroup Web Express Account Intelligence ●
Multi-instance Support 50 16 16 16 16 Linked Measures and Dimensions ●
Database Mirroring Full Single-thread Witness only Witness only Witness only Perspectives ●
Clustering 16-nodes 2-nodes Semi-additive Measures ●
Online System Changes ● ● ● ● ● Writeback Dimensions ●
Backup Log Shipping ● ● ● ● ● Partitioned Cubes and Distributed Partitioned Cubes ●
Automatic Corruption Recovery from Mirror ● ● Custom Rollups ●
High Availability

Log Stream Compression ● ● Features Enterprise Standard Workgroup Web Express

Online Indexing ● Create Cubes Without a Database ● ●
Mirrored Backups ● Auto-generate Staging and Data Warehouse Schema ● ●

Data Warehousing
Resource Governor ● Attribute Relationship Designer ● ●
Backup Compression ● Efficient Aggregation Designers ● ●
Hot-add Memory and CPU Support ● Scalable read-only AS ●
Database Snapshots ● Partitioned Cubes ●
Fast Recovery ● Distributed Partitioned Cubes ●
Online Page and File Restore ● Data Compression ●
Parallel Index Operations ● Star Join Query Optimizations ●
Updated Distributed Partioned Views ● Change Data Capture (CDC) ●
Table and Index Partitioning ●
Features Enterprise Standard Workgroup Web Express
Features Enterprise Standard Workgroup Web Express
Excel 2007 and Visio 2007 Add-in Support ● ●
Policy Based Configuration ● ● ● ● ● Comprehensive Set of DM Algorithms ● ●
Database Migration Tools ● ● ● ● ● Integrated Data Mining Tools
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Data Mining

Policy-Based Management ● ● ● ● ● (Wizards, Editors, Model Viewers, Query Builder)

Parallel Model Processing ●
Streamlined Installation ● ● ● ● ●
Cross Validation ●
SQL Server Management Studio Tools ● ● ● ● ●
Enterprise Manageability

Support for Plug-in Algorithms ●

Database Mail ● ● ● ●
Advanced Configuration and Tuning Options for Data Mining Algorithms ●
Performance Data Collection ● ● ● ●
Support for Pipeline Data Mining and Text Mining with Integration Services ●
SQL Profiler ● ● ● ●
Sequence Prediction ●
SQL Server Agent ● ● ● ●
Database Tuning Advisor ● ● ● ● Features Enterprise Standard Workgroup Web Express

Plan Freezing ● ● Reporting Services Memory Limits Unlimited Unlimited 4GB 4GB 4GB

Standard Performance Reports ● ● Report Designer ● ● ● ● ●

Distributed Partition Views ● Report Manager ● ● ● ● ●
Parallel Index Operations ● Role-based Security ● ● ● (fixed roles) ● (fixed roles) ● (fixed roles)
Automatic Query- to- index- View Matching ● Enhanced Gauges and Charting ● ● ● ●
Parallel Database Backup Checksum Check ● Basic Data Profiling Tools ● ● ● ● ●
Export to Excel, Word, PDF and Images ● ● ● ● ●
Reporting Services

Unlimited Virtualization ●
Features Enterprise Standard Workgroup Web Express Microsoft Office Integration ● ● ● ● ●
Enterprise Security

Custom Authentication ● ● ● ● ●
C2 Complaint Tracing ● ● ● ● ●
Report Server Application Embedding ● ● ● ● ●
SQL Auditing Foundation ● ● ● ● ●
Ad-hoc Reporting (Report Builder) ● ● ●
Fine Grained Auditing ●
Scale-out Operational Report Configuration ● ●
Transparent Database Encryption ●
SharePoint Integration ● ●
Extensible Key Management ●
Email and File Share Delivery ● ●
Features Enterprise Standard Workgroup Web Express
Report History, Scheduling, Subscriptions and Caching ● ●
MERGE and Upsert Capabilities ● ● ● ● ●
Data Source, Delivery and Rendering Extensibility ● ●
New Date and Time Data Types ● ● ● ● ●
Data-driven Report Subscriptions ●
Programmability

Internationalization Support ● ● ● ● ●
Report Scale-out Deployment ●
Full Text Search ● ● ● ● ●
Infinite Click-through in Ad-hoc Reports ●
Common Language Runtime (CLR) Integration ● ● ● ● ●
Features Enterprise Standard Workgroup Web Express
Native XML Support ● ● ● ● ●
SQL Server Change Tracking ● ● ● ● ●
XML Indexing ● ● ● ● ●
Replication

Merge Replication ● ● Subscriber Subscriber Subscriber

FILESTREAM Support ● ● ● ● ●
Transactional Replication ● ● Subscriber Subscriber Subscriber
Entity Framework Support ● ● ● ● ●
Snapshot Replication ● ● Subscriber Subscriber Subscriber
Spatial Support ● ● ● ● ●
Heterogeneous Subscribers ● ●
Features Enterprise Standard Workgroup Web Express
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Spatial Data

Oracle Publishing
Spatial Indexes ● ● ● ● ●
Features Enterprise Standard Workgroup Web Express
Geodetic Data Type ● ● ● ● ●
Dev Tools

Microsoft Visual Studio Integration ● ● ● ● ●

Advanced Spatial Libraries ● ● ● ● ●
Intellisense (Transact-SQL-and MDX) ● ● ● ● ●
Standards-based Spatial Support ● ● ● ● ●
MDX Edit, Debug and Design Tools ● ●

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