Adaptive Server editions

Adaptive Server is available in three editions:

Enterprise Edition – a full-featured server that can run all optional features.
Small Business Edition – includes the features required by most small businesses, but excludes some of the more advanced features.
Developer’s Edition – is created for you to design and build applications for Adaptive Server in a development environment.

Sybase also offers a series of options. Some of these options are intended for an enterprise-level site, and are not available in the Small Business Edition. Table 1-1 describes the availability of each option. For a full description of the option contents, see your sales representative.

**Table 1-1: Optional packages available for Adaptive Server**
	Available in the following editions:
Option	Enterprise Edition	Small Business Edition	Developer’s Edition	Description
Security and Directory Services option	Optional	Optional	Included	Lightweight directory services and network-based authentication and encryption using DCE and CyberSafe.
XML Management option	Optional	Optional	Included	Semi-structured and unstructured-data handling.
Content Management option	Optional	Optional	Included	Semi-structured and unstructured-data management.
e-business option	Optional	Not available	Included	Data-storage, access, replication, and security via an e-business platform.
High Availability	Optional	Not available	Included	Systems continuously available.
Distributed Transaction Management (DTM)	Optional	Not available	Included
Enhanced Full Text Search (EFTS)	Optional	Optional	Not available
SQL Expert	Optional	Optional	Not available
BMC DBXray	Optional	Optional	Not available
Disaster Recovery option	Optional	Not available	Not available	Provides a disaster recovery package for Adaptive Server users.
Web services	Optional	Optional	Included	Provides access to Adaptive Server through Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and Web Services Description Language (WSDL).

For more information, see “SySAM Configuration” in the Configuration Guide.

Use license_enabled to determine which edition of Adaptive Server you are running. Enter:

select license_enabled("server_edition")

Where server_edition is:

ase_server for the Enterprise Edition
ase_sbe for the Small Business Edition
ase_dev for the Developer’s Edition

Adaptive Server returns a value of “1” for the version that is enabled. See the Reference Manual for more information about the license_enabled function.