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Quite a lot of enterprise features made it into the free SQL Server Express this winter. [1]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlreleaseservices/sql-server-20
by hashhar 10y ago
Quite a lot of enterprise features made it into the free SQL Server Express this winter.
[1]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlreleaseservices/sql-server-2016-service-pack-1-sp1-released/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlreleaseservices/sql-serv...
- dspillett 10y agoOther limitations (10Gb/database, max 4 CPU cores & 1.5Gb RAM put to use per instance) mean Express is only useful for small projects and/or prototypes though - you'll be paying for standard edition for real work. Those previously enterprise-only features being in standard is a huge and convenient change too though. It is worth noting that developer edition is also free these days (as of 2016RTM IIRC) so for prototyping work (unless you need to support older versions) you are better off with that than express as it has always basically been the full enterprise edition.