Comparative SQL Server 2008 R2

Editions Enterprise vs. Standard

Compiled by Guillermo Taylor for http://mastergt68.wordpress.com. Adapted
from http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/product -info/compare.aspx

Table of Contents
Scalability and Performance ......................................................................................................................... 2
High Availability ............................................................................................................................................ 3
Virtualization Support ................................................................................................................................... 3
Replication .................................................................................................................................................... 4
Enterprise Security ........................................................................................................................................ 5
Single Instance RDBMS Management........................................................................................................... 6
Application and Multi-Instance Management .............................................................................................. 6
Management Tools ....................................................................................................................................... 7
Development Tools ....................................................................................................................................... 7
Programmability ........................................................................................................................................... 8
Spatial and Location Services ........................................................................................................................ 8
Complex Event Processing (StreamInsight) .................................................................................................. 9
Integration Services Advanced Adapters ................................................................................................... 9
Integration Services Advanced Transforms ............................................................................................... 9
Data Warehouse ......................................................................................................................................... 10
Analysis Services ......................................................................................................................................... 10
Analysis Services Advanced Analytic Functions ....................................................................................... 11
Data Mining................................................................................................................................................. 11
Reporting .................................................................................................................................................... 13
Business Intelligence Clients ....................................................................................................................... 14
Master Data Services .................................................................................................................................. 14

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Scalability and Performance

Evidence

SQL Server 2008 R2 Performance and Scalability Whitepaper (173KB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 R2 Performance and Scalability Datasheet (88KB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 Performance and Scalability Presentation

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High Availability

Evidence

SQL Server 2008 R2 High Availability Datasheet (213KB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 R2 High Availability Technologies Whitepaper (94KB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 R2 High Availability

Virtualization Support

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EVIDENCE

SQL Server 2008 R2 Virtualization Datasheet (101KB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 Best Practices in a Hyper-V Environment (241KB DOCX)

SQL Sustainability Whitepaper

Replication

Evidence

SQL Server 2008 Replication and Database Mirroring Whitepaper (190KB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 Replication Technical Article (939KB DOCX)

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Enterprise Security

Evidence

SQL Server 2008 R2 Security and Compliance Datasheet (163KB PDF)

SQL Server 2008 Security Overview Whitepaper (272KB DOCX)

Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Whitepaper (121KB DOCX)

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Single Instance RDBMS Management

Application and Multi-Instance Management

Evidence

SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-Instance Datasheet (432KB PDF)

SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-server Management FAQs (48KB DOCX)

Application And Multi-Server Management Intro Whitepaper for DBAs (743KB DOCX)

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Management Tools

Evidence

SQL Server 2008 R2 Manageability Datasheet (438.51KB PDF)

SQL 2008 R2 Manageability Whitepaper (1.34MB DOC)

SQL Server 2008 R2 Manageability Presentation (4.31MB PPTX)

Development Tools

Evidence

SQL Server 2008 R2 Programmability Datasheet (139KB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 R2 Application Development Datasheet (113KB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Data Platform Development Whitepaper (72KB DOCX)

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Programmability

Evidence

SQL Server 2008 R2 ADO.NET Data Services Datasheet (192KB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 R2 LINQ Datasheet (171KB DOCX)

What's New for XML in SQL Server 2008 Datasheet (75KB DOCX)

Spatial and Location Services

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Evidence

SQL Server 2008 R2 Spatial Data Datasheet (333KB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 R2 Spatial Data Whitepaper (537KB DOCX)

Delivering Location Intelligence with Spatial Data (537KB DOCX)

Complex Event Processing (StreamInsight)

For more information about the editions of StreamInsight, see Choosing a StreamInsight Edition.

Integration Services Advanced Adapters

Integration Services Advanced Transforms

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Data Warehouse

Evidence

An Introduction to New Data Warehouse Scalability Features in SQL Server 2008 R2 (276KB
DOCX)

Data Warehouse 2.0 and SQL Server Architecture and Vision Whitepaper (327KB DOCX)

Analysis Services

Evidence

SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Datasheet (266KB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Overview Whitepaper (901KB DOCX)

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Analysis Services Advanced Analytic Functions

Evidence

PowerPivot for Excel 2010 datasheet (937KB PDF)

PowerPivot FAQs (49KB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 R2 PowerPivot Planning and Deployment Whitepaper (2.95MB DOCX)

Data Mining

Page 11

Evidence

SQL Server 2008 R2 Predictive Analysis Datasheet (176KB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 R2 Data Mining Whitepaper (568KB DOCX)

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Reporting

Page 13

Evidence

SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Datasheet (530KB PDF)

SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0 FAQs (55.9KB DOCX)

Business Intelligence Clients

Evidence

SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Datasheet (960KB DOC)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Whitepaper (9.1MB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Presentation (5.63MB PPTX)

Master Data Services

Evidence

Introduction to Master Data Services Whitepaper (63KB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services FAQ (49KB DOCX)

SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services Datasheet (248KB PDF)

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