• What is your goal for partitioning?

    If you're talking about table partitioning (partition functions, partition schemes, etc), that's Enterprise only, any database with partitioning will fail to restore to another edition and any scripts referencing the partitioning features will fail on any version other than Enterprise.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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