No, local DB is just the engine that you can run in an attached process.
Dev edition gives you all the tools that come with the Enterprise edition of SQL Server. I see devs trying to learn to use SQL Server using Express or LocalDB all the time. That’s not sensible. Get the dev edition (it’s about $80) and you’ll have all the tools. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: <http://www.sqldownunder.com/> www.sqldownunder.com From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arjang Assadi Sent: Wednesday, 24 July 2013 9:05 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: SQL Server Developer Edition Was local DB meant to be an alternative in place of Sql Server Developer? On 24 July 2013 08:40, GregAtGregLowDotCom <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hi Corneliu, It’s good for dev/test scenarios but I gather not for UAT type scenarios. You’d be best getting advice from MS, and as usual, keep asking till you get the advice you wanted :) I’ve found that in general, no-one in the sales groups understand the dev edition. Last year, it took them over a week to work out how we could buy one. Now they are available from the standard license suppliers. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 <tel:%2B61%20419201410> mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 <tel:%2B61%203%208676%204913> fax SQL Down Under | Web: <http://www.sqldownunder.com/> www.sqldownunder.com From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Corneliu I. Tusnea Sent: Wednesday, 24 July 2013 7:52 AM To: ozDotNet; SQLDownUnder Subject: SQL Server Developer Edition Hi guys, [cross post to ozDotNet and SQLDownUnder] I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out the licenceing of SQL Server Developer Edition. This is straight from the SQL_Server_2012_Licensing_Reference_Guide.pdf from Microsoft: *Licensing SQL Server for Non-production Use* When using SQL Server software for development, test or demonstration purposes, only the users are licensed and there is no need for a corresponding license for the actual server systems running SQL Server software in this case. [...] Now, can I assign such a licence to a public test/utc environment we use to test the application before going into production. The "application" is a website accessible over the internet but will NOT be used for any production use. It's purely for testing, staging, utc and performance testing. Thanks, Corneliu
