SQL Server Express with Advanced Services Features
New: 14 April 2006
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services provides the following capabilities in addition to the features that are available in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition:
- SQL Server Management Studio Express, a graphical management tool based on SQL Server Management Studio that makes it easy to manage and administer SQL Server Express databases
- Reporting Services, an integrated report creation and design environment to create reports
- Full-text Search, a powerful search engine for searching text-intensive data
SQL Server 2005 Features that Are Supported in SQL Server Express
SQL Server Express supports most of the features and functionality of SQL Server 2005, including the following:
Stored Procedures |
SQL Server Configuration Manager |
Views |
Replication (as a subscriber only) |
Triggers |
Advanced Query Optimizer |
Cursors |
SMO/RMO |
sqlcmd and osql utilities |
Integration with Visual Studio 2005 |
Snapshot Isolation Levels |
Service Broker (as a client only)¹ |
Native XML support, including XQuery and XML Schemas |
SQL CLR |
Transact-SQL language support |
Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) |
Dedicated Administrator Connection² |
Full text Search |
Subset of Reporting Services features³ |
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¹SQL Server Express supports Service Broker, but direct communication between two servers that are running SQL Server Express is not supported.
²The Dedicated Administrator Connection feature for SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is supported with the trace flag 7806. For more information about trace flags and Dedicated Administrator Connection, see the Trace Flags (Transact-SQL) and Using a Dedicated Administrator Connection topics in SQL Server 2005 Books Online.
³For more information about the features that are supported in SQL Server Express with Advanced Services, see Reporting Services in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services.
SQL Server 2005 Features that Are Not Supported in SQL Server Express
The following table lists the additional SQL Server 2005 database features that are not supported in this version of SQL Server Express. It also lists database features from previous versions of SQL Server that are not supported.
| SQL Server 2005 features not supported in SQL Server Express | SQL Server features from previous versions not supported in SQL Server Express |
|---|---|
Database mirroring |
SQL Mail |
Online restore |
Failover clustering |
Database snapshot |
Distributed partitioned views |
Parallel index operations |
VIA protocol support |
Mirrored media sets |
Log shipping |
Partitioning |
Parallel DBCC |
Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) |
Parallel Create Index |
Hot-add memory |
Enhanced Read Ahead and Scan |
Native HTTP SOAP access |
Indexed views (materialized views) |
SQL Mail and Database Mail |
Partitioned views |
Online Index Operations |
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SQL Server Agent and SQL Server Agent Service |
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The following major SQL Server 2005 components are not supported in SQL Server Express:
- Notification Services
- Integration Services (formerly Data Transformation Services)
- Analysis Services
- OLAP Services/Data Mining
See Also
Concepts
Reporting Services in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services
Other Resources
Features Supported by the Editions of SQL Server 2005