SQL Server 2008 R2 delivers several breakthrough capabilities that will enable your organization to scale database operations with complete confidence, improve IT & developer efficiency, & enable highly scalable & well managed business intelligence on a self-service basis for your users. It supports data consistency across heterogeneous systems through SQL Server master data services, enabling high-scale complex event-stream processing through SQL Server Stream Insight, & supporting scale-up scenarios for the large available x 64 & Itanium hardware. Enabling administrators to centrally monitor & manage multiple database applications, instances or servers, accelerating the development & deployment of applications & providing enhanced support for virtualization through Hyper-V with live migration in Windows Server 2008 R2. Expanding powerful BI tools to all users with SQL Server Power Pivot for Excel & empowering the class of business users to build & share powerful BI solutions with little or no IT support, while still enabling IT to monitor & manage user-generated BI solutions. SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer enables developers to build & test applications that run on SQL Server on 32-bit, ia 64, & x 64 platforms. Developer
Includes:: all of the functionality of Datacenter but is licensed only for development, test, & demo use.