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I am trying to test MSSQL 2017 standard edition but couldn't find any link for trial. I did download developer edition but It is replica of Enterprise edition.
I am trying to test some functionalities on Basic availability groups which only exists on the standard edition.
Mert
Posted 2017-11-15T21:21:12.643
Reputation: 121
1Microsoft does not provide ISOs to the Standard edition unless you have a license to it. – Ramhound – 2017-11-15T21:24:44.787
so I have to pay without trying first, awesome MS. – Mert – 2017-11-15T21:30:06.580
SQL Server 2017 is a product you must pay. They give out trials to the Enterprise version since, based on my experience with SQL Server, has most the features of the other editions of it. They also have Express which is of course free. – Ramhound – 2017-11-15T21:31:25.703
Basic availability groups doesn't exists in the enterprise edition. – Mert – 2017-11-15T21:32:17.037
Is there a reason you cannot use advanced availability and just configure it as you would have if you had access only to basic availability? Considering, basic availability has a limited subset of the feature advanced availability everything you can do with basic should be possible with advanced. – Ramhound – 2017-11-15T21:58:06.090
I am trying to setup 8 database and 8 availability groups, each for one database but on advanced, its just merges databases on one listener, I am assuming that because advanced mode but can't be sure. so I am trying if I can do this on basic or not, very hard without having practical experience on differences between basic and advanced availability groups. – Mert – 2017-11-15T22:35:08.343
Read the differences between basic and advanced. If you want 8 then setup 4 individual groups of 2 which is the limitation of basic if my memory serves me (read the differences over 3 hours ago) – Ramhound – 2017-11-15T23:01:58.983
I ran across this because I was trying to install a new instance of a server that was already installed in production. Trying to just create a new instance requires the install media which was not saved on the local machine (from what I can tell). I can't even search the server for the install file(s) because I can't find the EXE name of that on the web. What a pain. No idea if this would work or not... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-sql-server-2017-rtm
– Arvo Bowen – 2020-02-19T17:06:18.897