Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals
by Paul Randal Kalen Delaney Kimberly Tripp, and Conor Cunningham
SQL Server Editions
Each version of SQL Server comes in various editions, which you can think of as a subset of the product features, with its own specific pricing and licensing requirements. Although we won’t be discussing pricing and licensing in this book, some of the information about editions is important, because of the features that are available with each edition. The editions available and the feature list that each supports is described in detail in SQL Server Books Online, but here we will list the main editions. You can verify what edition you are running with the following query:
SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('Edition');There is also a server property called EngineEdition that you can inspect, as follows:
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