Why do we need SQL Server Enterprise Edition for SAP Netweaver based applications?
Background to this question is that SAP mandates the usage of SQL Server Enterprise Edition for applications based on the SAP Netweaver Stack. Especially by customers who did not purchase SQL Server from SAP, but through other channels, this question is asked frequently. Those customers would like to use SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition, especially for their smaller systems. Let me give you some ideas why SQL Server Enterprise Edition is needed for SAP Netweaver. Latest with SQL Server 2005 SAP Netweaver took hard dependencies on certain features of SQL Server which usually are not present in Standard Edition. For SQL Server 2005, it started with SQL Server’s Table Partitioning which is an Enterprise Edition only feature. SAP implemented the usage of this feature in SAP BI/BW. In older Basis releases like 6.40 (SAP BI/BW 3.5), the usage of table partitioning was on customer demand only (non default). However with SAP BI 7.0, the usage of SQL Server Table Partitioning for Fact tables an
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