Features Supported by The Editions of SQL Server 2012
Features Supported by The Editions of SQL Server 2012
Note For features supported by Evaluation and Developer editions see the SQL Server Enterprise feature set.
To navigate to the table for a SQL Server technology, click on its link: Cross-Box Scale Limits High Availability (AlwaysOn) Scalability and Performance Security Replication Management Tools RDBMS Manageability Development Tools Programmability Integration Services Integration Services-Advanced Adapters Integration Services-Advanced Transforms Master Data Services Data Warehouse Analysis Services BI Semantic Model (Multidimensional) BI Semantic Model (Tabular)
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Feature Name
Express Express with with Express Advanced Tools Services Limited Limited to lesser to lesser of 1 of 1 Socket Socket or 4 or 4 cores cores Limited Limited to lesser to lesser of 1 of 1 Socket Socket or 4 or 4 cores cores
Maximum Compute Capacity Used by a Single Instance (SQL Server Database Engine)
Limited to Limited to Limited to lesser of lesser of lesser of 1 4 Sockets 4 Sockets Socket or or 16 or 16 4 cores cores cores
Maximum Compute Capacity Used by a Operating Single Instance (Analysis system Services, Reporting maximum 1 Services)
Limited to Limited to Limited to lesser of lesser of lesser of 1 4 Sockets 4 Sockets Socket or or 16 or 16 4 cores cores cores
Maximum memory utilized Operating (SQL Server Database system Engine) maximum Operating Maximum memory utilized system (Analysis Services) maximum
64 GB
64 GB
64 GB
1 GB
1 GB
1 GB
64 GB
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Operating Maximum memory utilized system (Reporting Services) maximum Maximum relational Database size
64 GB
64 GB
4 GB
N/A
N/A
524 PB
524 PB
524 PB
524 PB
10 GB
10 GB
10 GB
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1Enterprise Edition with Server + Client Access License (CAL) based licensing is limited to a maximum of 20 cores per SQL Server instance. For more information, see Compute Capacity Limits by Edition of SQL Server2. Top
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Database mirroring
Yes
Yes Yes (Safety Witness (Safety Witness only Full Only) only Full Only) Yes (Node support: 2)
Failover Clustering
Backup compression Database snapshot AlwaysOn Availability Groups SQL Server Multi-Subnet Clustering Connection Director
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Online page Yes and file restore Online indexing Yes Online schema Yes change Fast recovery Mirrored backups Hot Add Memory and CPU2 Database Recovery Advisor Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
1For more information on installing SQL Server 2012 on Server Core, see Install SQL Server 2012 on Server Core3. 2This feature is only available for 64-bit SQL Server. Top
Feature Name
50
50
50
50
50
50
50
Yes
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Security
Feature Name
Express
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Transparent Yes database encryption Extensible Key Management User-Defined Roles Contained Databases
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
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Replication
Feature Name
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Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Transactional replication
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes (Subscriber (Subscriber only) only) Yes Yes (Subscriber (Subscriber only only)
Yes Yes (Subscriber (Subscriber only) only) Yes Yes (Subscriber (Subscriber only) only)
Snapshot replication
Yes
Yes
Yes
Heterogeneous subscribers
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Management Tools
Feature Name
Enterprise
SQL Management Yes Objects (SMO) SQL Configuration Yes Manager SQL CMD (Command Prompt Yes tool) SQL Server Management msdn.microsof t.com/en-us/library /cc645993(d=printer,v =sql.110).aspx
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Distributed Replay Yes - Client Yes (Enterprise supports up to 16 Distributed Replay clients, Developer - Controller supports only 1 client) SQL Profiler Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No2 Yes
No2
No2
No2
SQL Server Agent Yes Microsoft System Center Operations Yes Manager Management Pack Database Tuning Advisor (DTA)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes3
Yes3
2 SQL Server Web, SQL Server Express, SQL Server Express with Tools, and SQL Server Express with Advanced Services can be profiled using SQL Server Standard and SQL Server Enterprise editions 3 Tuning enabled only on Standard edition features. Top
RDBMS Manageability
Feature Name
Enterprise
Express Express with with Advanced Tools Services Yes Yes Yes Yes
Express
Yes
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Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes Yes (under (under (under trace flag) trace flag) trace flag)
PowerShell scripting Yes support SysPrep support 1 Support for Datatier application component operations extract, deploy, upgrade, delete Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Policy automation (check on schedule Yes and change) Performance data collector
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Able to enroll as a managed instance in Yes a multi-instance management Standard Yes performance reports Plan guides and plan freezing for plan Yes guides Direct query of indexed views (using NOEXPAND hint) Automatic indexed view maintenance
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Partial.
Partial.
Partial.
Partial.
Partial.
Yes
Distributed Distributed Distributed Partitioned Partitioned Partitioned Views are Views are Views are not not not updatable updatable updatable
Distributed Distributed Partitioned Partitioned Views are Views are not not updatable updatable
Yes
Yes
Parallel consistency Yes check SQL Server Utility control point Contained Databases
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
1 SysPrep is supported for stand-alone instances of Database Engine and Reporting Services. For more information, see Considerations for Installing SQL Server Using SysPrep4. Top
Development Tools
Feature Name
Express
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
SQL Server Developer Yes Studio Intellisense (Transact-SQL and MDX) 1 SQL Server Data
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
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Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
1 This feature is not available for 64-bit version of Standard edition. Top
Programmability
Feature Name
Enterprise
Common Language Runtime (CLR) Integration Native XML support XML indexing MERGE & UPSERT Capabilities FILESTREAM support FileTable Date and Time datatypes Internationalization support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No (Client only)
No (Client only)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Integration Services
Feature
Enterprise
Express with Express Business Standard Web Advanced with Express Intelligence Services Tools
SQL Server Import and Export Wizard Built-in data source connectors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
SSIS designer and runtime Yes Basic Transforms Basic data profiling tools Change Data Capture Service for Oracle by Attunity Change Data Capture Designer for Oracle by Attunity Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
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Feature Name
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 Change Data Capture components by Attunity Connector for Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) by Attunity
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Feature Name
Enterprise
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Yes
Data mining query transformation Fuzzy grouping and lookup transformations Term extractions and lookup transformations
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Feature
Enterprise
Express
Master Data Services Yes database Master Data Manager Yes web application Top
Yes
Yes
Data Warehouse
Feature Name
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Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto-generate staging and Yes data warehouse schema Change data capture Star join query optimizations Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Parallel query processing on partitioned tables and Yes indices xVelocity memory optimized Yes columnstore indexes
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Analysis Services
Feature Name
Express Express Business with Enterprise Standard Web with Express Intelligence Advanced Tools Services
Scalable Shared Databases (Attach/Detach, Read only databases) High Availability Programmability (AMO, ADOMD.Net, OLEDB, XML/A, ASSL) Top
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Express Express Business with Enterprise Standard Web with Express Intelligence Advanced Tools Services Yes Yes No1 Yes Yes
Semi-additive Measures
Hierarchies KPIs Perspectives Actions Account intelligence Time Intelligence Custom rollups Writeback cube Writeback dimensions Writeback cells Drillthrough Advanced hierarchy types (Parent-Child, Ragged Hiearchies)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced dimensions (Reference dimensions, many- Yes to-many dimensions Linked measures and dimensions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Translations Aggregations
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Multiple Partitions
Yes
Yes
Proactive Caching Custom Assemblies (stored procs) MDX queries and scripts Role-based security model Dimension and Cell-level Security Scalable string storage MOLAP, ROLAP, HOLAP storage modes Binary and compressed XML transport
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Push-mode processing
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
1The LastChild semi-additive measure is supported in standard edition, but other semi-additive measures, such as None, FirstChild, FirstNonEmpty, LastNonEmpty, AverageOfChildren, and ByAccount, are not. Additive measures, such as Sum, Count, Min, Max, and non-additive measures (DistinctCount) are supported on all editions. Top
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Express Business with Enterprise Standard Web Intelligence Advanced Services Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Perspectives Translations DAX calculations, DAX queries, MDX queries Row-level Security Partitions
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Feature Name
Express Express Business with Enterprise Standard Web with Express Intelligence Advanced Tools Services
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Mining
Feature Name
Express Express Business with Enterprise Standard Web with Express Intelligence Advanced Tools Services Yes Yes Yes
Standard Algorithms Data Mining Tools (Wizards, Editors Query Builders) Cross Validation Models on Filtered Subsets of Mining Structure Data Time Series: Custom Blending Between ARTXP and ARIMA Methods Time Series: Prediction with New Data Unlimited Concurrent DM Queries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced Configuration & Tuning Options for Data Mining Yes Algorithms Support for plug-in algorithms Yes
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Yes
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Parallel Model Processing Time Series: Cross-Series Prediction Unlimited attributes for Association Rules Sequence Prediction
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multiple Prediction Targets for Nave Bayes, Neural Network Yes and Logistic Regression
Yes
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Reporting Services
Reporting Services Features
Feature Name
Express with Express Business Enterprise Standard Web Advanced with Express Intelligence Services Tools Standard or higher All SQL Server editions Yes Yes Yes Yes Standard or Standard higher or higher All SQL Server editions Yes Yes Yes Yes All SQL Server editions Yes Yes Yes Yes
Web Express
Web Express
Report server Report Designer Report Manager Role based security Word Export and Rich Text Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
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Enhanced gauges and charting Export to Excel, PDF, and Images Custom authentication Report as data feeds Model support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Create custom roles for Yes role-based security Model Item security Infinite click through Shared component library Email and file share subscriptions and scheduling Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Report history, execution snapshots and Yes caching SharePoint Integration Remote and non-SQL data source support 1 Data source, delivery and rendering, RDCE extensibility Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
1For more information on the supported datasources in SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (SSRS), see Data Sources Supported by Reporting Services (SSRS)5. 2Requires Reporting Services in SharePoint mode. For more information, see Installing Reporting Services SharePoint Mode Report Server for Power View and Data Alerting6. Top
Use this edition of the Database Engine instance to host the database Standard, Business Intelligence Enterprise, editions (local or remote) Standard, Business Intelligence Enterprise, editions (local or remote) Standard, Enterprise editions (local or remote) Web edition (local only) Express with Advanced Services (local only). Evaluation
Enterprise
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contains the server features required to host the documents created in these client applications.
Feature Name
Enterprise
Express with Business Standard Web Advanced Intelligence Services Yes Yes
Report Builder Data Mining Addins for Excel and Visio 2010 PowerPivot for Excel 2010 Master Data Services Add-in for Excel Note
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
1. PowerPivot for Excel is an Excel addin and does not depend on SQL Server. However PowerPivot for SharePoint is required for sharing and collaborating with PowerPivot workbooks in SharePoint and this capability is available as part of SQL Server Enterprise and Business Intelligence editions. 2. The above table identifies the SQL Server editions that are required to enable these client tools; however these features can access data hosted on any edition of SQL Server.
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Feature Name
Express Business with Enterprise Standard Web Intelligence Advanced Services Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
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Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
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Feature Name
Enterprise
Business Intelligence
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes
Yes
Database mail
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Other Components
Feature Name
Enterprise
Web
Yes
Yes
StreamInsight StreamInsight StreamInsight StreamInsight StreamInsight Premium Standard Standard Standard Edition Edition Edition Edition StreamInsight StreamInsight Premium HA Edition Top
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Translations not completely supported for BI Semantic Model (Multidimensional) in Standard and BI ed
When you have a look at the 'Translations' feature under 'BI Semantic Model (Multidimensional)', you will see that translations should be supported in all editions of Analysis Services 2012. I gave it a try in the Standard and in the BI Edition and when adding a translation for an attribute which is used in an hierarchy, the following error message is displayed: 'Only dimension attributes and attribute relationships can have translations in this edition of Analysis Services.' 9/11/2012 Johan_Jacobs 9/3/2012 Johan_Jacobs
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