Hi,
We have a SQL Server 2008 R2 standard edition instance with 64 Gig RAM and 4 Core CPUs. We understand that SQL Server enterprise can provide better query execution performance because of the reasons explained in this article:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/boduff/archive/2008/01/24/why-should-i-use-sql-enterprise-edition.aspx
We do not need any additional features of SQL enterprise, we only need better query execution performance.
We like to bench mark the performance enhancements before we buy and pay for a SQL enterprise edition to make sure it worth the extra cost.
Is there any way to install SQL enterprise, measure the performance, if the performance improvement is not good enough, downgrade the license to standard without being have to re-install the system?
Thank you,