Gazareth (12/3/2015)
Nice article, cheers. Might be worth making the point clear that it's an Enterprise Edition feature, so readers can avoid the crushing disappointment I experienced when trialing it on Standard :crying:
Cheers Gaz! You're right, Enterprise Edition not only gets all marketing features but also all engine improvementsOn my defense I'd say you can taste it in Developer Edition too. :-D:-D
Surely it's in standard edition in SQl Server 2016?
Think I tested it on 2016 SP1 with all the newly available features in Standard, but it seems this wasn't one of them unfortunately. I'll see if I can dig up my results to confirm.
NB: this article was first published in 2015, today is a re-post.
Update: Yep, still an Enterprise (& Developer)-only feature, even in SQL 2016 SP1.
SQL 2016 SP1 has brought to standard development features (in-memory, always encrypted, and so on) but the performance features like online index rebuild and this, are (and I guess always be) enterprise.
Cheers!