| Feature | Enterprise | Standard | |---------|------------|----------| | Big Data Clusters | ✅ | ❌ | | Online indexing | ✅ | ❌ (offline only) | | Partitioning | ✅ 15,000 partitions | ❌ (only 1 partition per table) | | Advanced in-memory OLTP | ✅ Unlimited | ❌ (limited to 32GB per DB) | | Columnstore indexes | ✅ Full real-time operational analytics | ✅ (limited – no updateable columnstore) | | Multiple tempdb files | ✅ Auto-growing beyond 8 files | ❌ (fixed at 8 max) | | PolyBase | ✅ Advanced external tables | ❌ (basic read-only) |
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SQL Server 2019 Enterprise is a powerful database management system designed to support large-scale, mission-critical applications. It offers a wide range of features and tools to help organizations manage and analyze their data, improve performance, and increase security. Here are some of the key features of SQL Server 2019 Enterprise:
