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We were recently told by our DBA's that we couldn't use the MSDN SQL Enterprise installations because they were features or something missing compared to the retails versions.<br />
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Obviously this is for testing but I want to confirm this fact regardless because I am being told by another source that this is not the case.<br />
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This will be Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Enterprise with SQL Server 2008 Enterprise<br />
x2 in a cluster
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We were recently told by our DBA's that we couldn't use the MSDN SQL Enterprise installations because they were features or something missing compared to the retails versions.

Obviously this is for testing but I want to confirm this fact regardless because I am being told by another source that this is not the case.

This will be Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Enterprise with SQL Server 2008 Enterprise
x2 in a cluster

MSDN SQL Server Enterprise missing features?

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