SQL Server Version Compare LIST
During one of my training session a college graduate asked me a question, Could you please provide me a quick comparison between the SQL Server versions.
I answered him that there is no such table as there are some feature which are available to specific editions only. But he insisted to have a small table to compare SQL Server Versions.
So I promised him to build a quick list to provide, here you go Pawan (who asked this question)
SQL Server Version Comparison
| Features | SQL Server 2000 | SQL Server 2005 | SQL Server 2008 | SQL Server 2008 R2 | SQL Server 2012 |
| IA64 hardware support | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| Maximum database size (as per BOL) |
1,048,516 TB | 524,258 terabytes | 524,272 terabytes | 524,272 terabytes | 524,272 terabytes |
| Maximum memory utilized (Enterprise Edition both SQL as well as Windows) |
64 GB (Datacenter) |
OS maximum | OS maximum | OS maximum | OS maximum |
| Number of CPUs Enterprise Edition | 32 (Datacenter) |
Operating system maximum | Operating system maximum | Operating system maximum | Operating system maximum |
| Resource governor | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Distributed Partition Views | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Parallel consistency checks (DBCC) | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Log shipping | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| Database mirroring | NA | Available (SP1) onwards |
Available | Available | Available |
| Automatic corruption recovery from mirror | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Mirrored backups | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Online indexing | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| Hot add memory and CPU support | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Online page and file restore | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Virtualization Support | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Peer to Peer replication | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| Transparent database encryption | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Policy-Based Management | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Database mail | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Plan guides GUI | NA | NA sp_control plan_guide was available |
Available | Available | Available |
| DAC | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| SQL Server Configuration Manager | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| SQL Server Surface Area Configuration | NA | Available | NA | NA | NA |
| IntelliSense | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| FILESTREAM support | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Spatial Data type Support | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Stream Insight | NA | NA | NA | Available | Available |
| Change data capture | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Data compression | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Star join | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Master Data Service | NA | NA | NA | Available | Available |
| HADR – High Availability & Disaster recovery (Always ON) | NA | NA | NA | NA | Available |
| PIVOT and UNPIVOT | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| Common Language Runtime | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| Service Broker | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| Data encryption | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| HTTP endpoints | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| Multiple Active Result Sets | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| SSIS Support | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| Data Center Edition | NA | NA | NA | Available | NA |
| Parallel Data Warehouse | NA | NA | NA | Available | NA |
| Power Pivot | NA | NA | NA | Available | Available |
| Data-Tier Application | NA | NA | NA | Available | Available |
| Multi Server Dashboards | NA | NA | NA | Available | Available |
| Data Collector | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Filtered Indexes | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Plan freezing | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
|
Activity Monitor |
NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Central Management Servers | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Data Collector and Management Data Warehouse | NA | NA | Available | Available | Available |
| Ad Hoc Query Paging | NA | NA | NA | NA | Available |
| Column Based Query Accelerator | NA | NA | NA | NA | Available |
| FileTable | NA | NA | NA | NA | Available |
| Business Intelligence Edition | NA | NA | NA | NA | Available |
| Contained Databases | NA | NA | NA | NA | Available |
| DMV’s | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| XML data type | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| Common Table Expresssions (CTEs) | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| .NET triggers | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| Database snapshots | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| DDL triggers | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| Row versioning-based isolation level | NA | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| Data Quality Service | NA | NA | NA | NA | Available |
| Sequences | NA | NA | NA | NA | Available |
NOTE - This is not a complete list and in most of time I assumed Enterprise edition only for this Microsoft SQL Server Version Comparison
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