SQL SERVER 2012 EDITIONS

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SQL Server 2012 Highlights

SQL Server 2012 will provide Mission Critical Confidence with greater uptime, blazing-fast performance and enhanced security features for mission critical workloads; Breakthrough Insight with managed self-service data exploration and stunning interactive data visualizations capabilities; Cloud On Your Own Terms by enabling the creation and extension of solutions across on-premises and public cloud. SQL Server 2012 will be available in three main editions:

* The Web, Developer and Express editions will also be available in the SQL Server 2012 release. For more information, please refer to the 2012 SQL Server FAQ.

SQL SERVER 2012 CAPABILITIESThe table below shows a feature comparison among the three main editions. To view a full feature by feature comparison of SQL Server 2012 editions, visit SQL Server Books Online.

FeaturesEnterpriseBusiness
Intelligence
Standard
Maximum Number of CoresOS Max¹16 Cores-DB
OS Max-AS&RS²
16 Cores
Basic OLTPcheckedcheckedchecked
Programmability (T-SQL, Data Types, FileTable)checkedcheckedchecked
Manageability (SQL Server Management Studio, Policy-based Management)checkedcheckedchecked
Basic High Availability³checkedcheckedchecked
Basic Corporate BI (Reporting, Analytics, Multidimensional Semantic Model, Data Mining)checkedcheckedchecked
Basic Data Integration (Built-in Data Connectors, Designer Transforms)checkedcheckedchecked
Self-Service Business Intelligence (Alerting, Power View, PowerPivot for SharePoint Server)checkedchecked 
Advanced Corporate BI (Tabular BI Semantic Model, Advanced Analytics and Reporting, VertiPaq™ In-Memory Engine)checkedchecked 
Advanced Data Integration (Fuzzy Grouping and Lookup, Change Data Capture, Advanced Data Mining)checkedchecked 
Enterprise Data Management (Data Quality Services, Master Data Services)checkedchecked 
Advanced Security (SQL Server Audit, Transparent Data Encryption)checked  
Data Warehousing (ColumnStore Index, Compression, Partitioning)checked  
Advanced High Availability (Multiple, Active Secondaries; Multi-site, Geo-Clustering)³checked  

¹Existing SQL Server Enterprise edition licenses in the Server + CAL licensing model upgraded to SQL Server 2012 will be limited to server deployments with 20 cores or less. Refer to Datasheet for more details.

²Analysis Services & Reporting Services.

³Basic includes log shipping, database mirroring, server core support and two-node Failover Clustering. Windows Server Enterprise edition or above is a system requirement for AlwaysOn / Failover Clustering.

⁴SharePoint Server with Enterprise CAL is a system requirement for Power View and PowerPivot for SharePoint. Alerting is accessible through SharePoint Foundation or above.

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