Lowell (7/2/2013)
no, but the features differences all really have to do with a lot of advanced things, that would never come up in basic development; they come up more along the lines support, like max memory/processor, high availability features, auditing features, and maintenance and support.take a peek here, and see if any of the Standard items columns are things you think you'd be using during development.
Not all of the things that come along with Enterprise/Developer edition are things a developer needs to "develop" (star join optimizations for example). Others they may not know are not available in std ed. (partitioned tables). Some are administrative yet important (online index rebuild, TDE). Others no one uses anyway (MDS, DQS). 😎
I too think it would be nice to have a Dev edition that doesn't expose non-EE-only features, but we don't have that. So it is up to the OP to school the team on what isn't usable in production.
Best,
Kevin G. Boles
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