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Feature Group Feature Name Enterprise Standard
Dimension, attribute
relationship, aggregate,
and cube design
improvements
Yes Yes
Personalization extensions Yes Yes
Financial aggregations Yes
Partitioned customers Yes
Custom rollups Yes
Semi-additive measures Yes
Writeback dimensions Yes
Linked measures and dimensions Yes
Binary and compressed XML
transport
Yes
Account intelligence Yes
Perspectives Yes
Analysis Services shared,
scalable databases
Yes
Data Mining Standard algorithms Yes Yes
Data mining tools: wizards,
editors, query builders
Yes Yes
Cross validation Yes
Models on filtered subsets of
mining structure data
Yes
Table 2.3 Continued. SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Features by Edition

Continued
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Table 2.4 identifies the feature differences in editions in SQL Server 2008
Reporting Services. For further information on these features, refer to the article
Features Supported by the Editions of SQL Server 2008 at rosoft.
com/en-us/library/cc645993.aspx.
Feature Group Feature Name Enterprise Standard
Time series:
custom blending between
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ARTXP and ARIMA models
prediction with new data
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cross series predictions
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Yes
Unlimited concurrent data
mining queries
Yes
Advanced configuration and
tuning for algorithms
Yes
Algorithm plug-in API Yes
Parallel model processing Yes
Sequence prediction Yes
Multiple prediction targets for
naïve Bayes, neural network,
and logistic regression
Yes
Table 2.3 Continued. SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Features by Edition

Feature Name Enterprise Standard Workgroup Web Express
Express
Tools
Express
Advanced
Report Server Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Report Designer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Report Manager Yes Yes Yes Yes (Report
Manager)
Yes (Report
Manager)
Role-based
security
Yes Yes Yes
(Fixed roles)
Yes
(Fixed roles)
Yes (Fixed
roles)
Ad-hoc reporting
(Report Builder)
Yes Yes Yes
Word export
and enhanced
text formatting
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SharePoint
integration
Yes Yes
Enhanced

SSRS gauges
and charting
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Export to Excel,
PDF, and images
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Remote and
nonrelational
data source
support
Yes Yes
Table 2.4 SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Features by Edition
E-mail and
fileshare delivery
Yes Yes
Report history,
scheduling,
subscriptions,
and caching
Yes Yes
Data source,
delivery,
and rendering
extensibility
Yes Yes
Infinite
clickthrough
Yes
Data-driven
subscriptions

Yes
Reporting
Services memory
limits
Unlimited Unlimited
4 GB 4 GB 4 GB
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Planning Your Installation
The planning process prior to installation is a critical component of the success of
any product installation or upgrade process. In the planning process, understanding
the overall architecture and the tracking all the details are critical.
Understand the current hardware resources and budget parameters to stage,
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test, and perform the installations and upgrades.
Understand the application and database architecture used in the business
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applications.
What specific functionality needs to be tested to ensure certain speed
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and/or security requirements?
Is there a test plan to support the validation process after the upgrade
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and installation?
Understand the business’s service level agreements for all SQL Server
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applications.
Is there a time window available for upgrading the SQL Server
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instances?
Is there disk space (or budget for additional disks) to host a side-by-

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side installation?
If the time window is insufficient for an upgrade, consider a migration
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process of upgrading the instance on another server or an instance on
the same server.
Document the installation components to be used in the process.
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Create all the service and administrator accounts required by the
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various SQL Server components.
Detail the directories where the software and data directories will reside.
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Define and implement a testing process for the installation/upgrade and
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success criteria.
Plan the disk layout of the new or existing environment to ensure enough
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storage space for backups, additional space for installation files and logs as
well as the database files.
Establish a backup and recovery plan.
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Perform backup and recovery on test servers to ensure procedures are
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operable in the case of a production incident.