DO these versions mean anything to me as a developer? I understand they have limitations on connections/processors/etc but none of that matters to me for a local development instance. All of the ISOs on MSDN are the same size, does it make a difference which of these I choose to download?
Use the development version as it will allow you to develop with features that are available on all of the production versions. If you were to install say just the Standard version then you would be unable to develop anything that uses an Enterprise feature.
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I was looking over the Edition specifications, and Standard is capped at 128 GB RAM is that correct?Can someone recommend me to use sql server enterprise edition or standard, My company is mid size, i am trying to reduce cost like everyone,but want make do it right.
I think this may be an issue, given that we use over 500 GB of RAM right now. so will probably need to have with Enterprise. what do you think?I mean, unless we're intending to split up the primary DB into multiple instances, is that a good idea split to instanses or go with enterprise? Thank you
It's likely, however, that you are not using data compression now. From SQL 2016 on, that is available in Std Ed as well, and you should be using it if at all possible. That will reduce memory requirements some, but may not be enough for you to be able to cut it from 500 to 128.
Actually, no. You need to be really careful about using Row compression and that also means Page compression, which first uses row compression. Turning on Row compression makes a huge number of your currently fixed width columns change to variable width. If you never change a NULL to something else, the Row compression might be right for you but the chances of that being true are slim to none and slim just left.
You say you're currently using 500GB of RAM. I have no doubt that you have 500GB of ram but have you actually checked to see if SQL Server is actually consuming that much RAM using something like Task Manager to see how much it's actually using?
100% disagree. Page compression is one of the great features of SQL Server, and the vast majority of large tables benefit greatly from it. Esp. since developers do not encode most text values into numbers as they should; for example, status has values "Closed", "Completed", "In progress", etc., rather than 9, 8, 1, etc..
I agree that row and page compression is a wonderful tool and I've been very successful in using it properly. I also agree that it's wonderful for the normally largest tables in most databases (audit/log/history tables, etc), especially since the usually fall into the W.O.R.M. category.
In the past, you've stated that people should just automatically use at least row compression on every table. You not said that in is the recent post but you have said that the OP should "be using it if at all possible" without stating what that means.
You also not mentioned the much longer times (2x-4x has been my experience) that index maintenance will take if you do need to rebuild compressed indexes nor the massive increase in page splits that can occur if the table suffers Null-to-Populated updates on what used to be fixed width columns... and it only takes one such column to cause the problem. Yep... you can help prevent that, in some cases, by lowering the Fill Factor but then you've just started "wasting" memory again. Of course that's still better than the doubling the memory requirements if you don't fix the page splits.
Again, yes... used properly on the proper tables with the proper insert patterns can save a huge wad of both disk space and memory. Used on the wrong tables, the resulting page splits that occur will be much worse than too little memory.
If you really want to try this, try reducing it gradually from 500 downward. Say to 450. See if that goes OK. Then to 400. Then to 360. Etc.. If at any point before 128 you run into significant performance issues, you'll know it won't work. I think going straight to 128 risks a super-bad performance issue in prod.
For me, it would work just fine for going straight down to 128. I'd be monitoring live, would make the change, and in about 10 seconds, I'd know whether or not I had to hit the "GO" button on the script that would instantly set it back to what it was.
I get where you're going with that but I guess I'm going to have to put that to the test in the very near future. I did it once out of necessity about 15 years ago and it worked like I said but a whole lot has changed since then.
I know, this kind of question has already been answered some times but I don't find some current answers and wonder if SQL Server Standard Edition 2016 SP1 has changed something in the matter as it supports all "programmability features" earlier supported by enterprise edition only.
My specific scenario is as follows:I have got a central backup server which will be running SQL Server 2017 Standard Edition and regulary restores new backups taken from other SQL Server instances. Most instances will be on SQL Server 2017 Standard as well...however there is a Data Warehouse running SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition.
If you are using any such feature you would have to stop using it, take fresh backup and then restore. I know its hard to tell because starting from SQL Server 2016 Sp1 standard provides far more features support. So at the last the answer would be you need to restore and test.
From SQL Server 2016 SP1, almost all the enterprise features are available across all editions. This means you shouldn't have any trouble restoring on SQL Server 2017. Note that version downgrades still won't work - that is, restoring a backup created on a higher version on a lower version.
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