Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard / 2 Core

📝  Product Details:

SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition offers enhanced availability and scalability of up to 24 cores. This version comes with a variety of SQL Server technologies such as the Database Engine, R Services, Data Quality Services, etc. This product is licensed per core, meaning the number of users and devices does not matter. Licensing is based on computational power as the metric. This implies that the more computational power the server uses, the more expensive it becomes. The minimum licensing requirement is four cores per processor (socket), and licenses are available as two-core packs.

✨  Features:

– 📇 Database Engine: Core service for storing, processing, and securing data with high availability.
– 💡 R Services: Integrates the R language with SQL Server for enhanced data analysis.
– 📊 Data Quality Services: Provides a knowledge-driven data cleansing solution.
– 🔄 Integration Services: High-performance data integration solution.
– 🏦 Master Data Services: SQL Server’s master data management solution.
– 📈 Analysis Services: Platform for analytical data and business intelligence toolset.
– 🔄 Replication: Technologies for copying and distributing data and database objects.
– 📄 Reporting Services: Delivers web-based reporting functionality.

📌  Use Cases:

This version of SQL Server is suitable for various application scenarios: companies with high demands on data processing applications, businesses looking to integrate R into their workflows, those requiring high availabilities, just to name a few.

🖥️  System Requirements:

– 🪟 Operating System: Microsoft SQL Server 2016
– ⚙️ Processor: x64 processor: AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon 64, Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T support, Intel Pentium IV with EM64T support – Minimum 1.4 GHz, Recommended: 2.0 GHz or faster
– 💾 RAM: Minimum 1 GB, Recommended: at least 4 GB. Additionally, as the database size increases, memory should be increased.
– 💾 Storage Space: At least 6 GB of available disk space.