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  • It will work, providing the database contains no persistent enterprise-only features (partitioning, compression, TDE). If the DB uses any of those, the restore will fail *at the end*

    Backup compression isn't a problem, while only Enterprise/Developer edition can create compressed backups, any edition can read compressed backups and restore the DB.

    Gail Shaw
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