Hi,
I am very happy to see that this is not only my issue and there are a lot of peoples that are stuck like me with Standard edition because tight budgets, i really wish to have only two things and i'll be pleased to have limitations and i'll find solutions some how, i am talking about partition table and it's ok to have a limit of 1000 partitions, also compress backups to eliminate 3rd party product that we are using only because of the compress backups option, my native (...one set) of backup file is almost 300 GB and we have a 'write' pace to the database something near 95%, we are a financial /brokers company, i am doing backup to transaction logs on each 10 minutes and the files are sized between 500 MB & 2 GB of database changes, that's why i want this backup to be compressed also in the standard edition.
I can ask/wish also for the online rebuild index but i know that this will not be inside, even what i wrote about the partition tables and compressed backups, thanks to let us say something even that none of this will be added, i am a DBA for almost 16 years in SQL Server and i didn't saw any 'miracles' or 'wish lists' happens for real, thanks anyway.
Best regards,
Victor S.