WIP/ODS database - MS SQL Server standard or enterprise

[Former Member]

Hi all,

didn't find any detailled statements in notes and release infos about that question:

If MS SQL server is used for WIP and ODS databases (ME database server) - is standard edition sufficient or is enterprise edition needed?

The license costs are significant differently (about 1:5...).

I think it would be good to have a clear statment for all future releases.

Beginning with ME 15.0 and SQL-Server 2012 (and newer).

Would be very helpfull if anyone is able to help!

Thanks in advance.

best

Stefan

[Former Member]

Hi Sergiy,

thanks a lot for your answer.

SAP should consider to review this topic - Oracle Enterprise RDBMS is freaky expensive. And it's the more freaky, if you have a look on what basic features of a RDBMS the ME is using...

Sure, in near future they want to migrate everything into the HANA-DB.

But a clear and reasoned statement for a few hundreds of thousands of costs would be very helpfull

Regards,

Stefan

[sergiy_katerinich]

Hi Stefan,

I guess you expect me to answer about the "reasoned statement" why a customer should pay extra cost for Enterprise Edition. This should be addressed to SAP ME Consulting who are responsible for system sizing and landscape recommendations.

As I know, most of the customers are running on Oracle RAC for the purpose of high availability. Not sure if this is a part of Standard Edition.

Additionally, investigation of performance issues requires some tools not available in Standard Edition.

Regards,

Sergiy

[sergiy_katerinich]

Hi Stefan,

Enterprise Edition is recommended. It is mentioned in the attachment of SAP Note 1919146 that in turn is referenced by SAP ME Installatoin Guide, section 3.1.2.

Regards,

Sergiy