Hey People,
I've just spent quite a bit of time setting up and testing cross-domain, cross firewall, HTTPS based synchronization of my SSAS DB in my dev environment, only to find that when I tried it in production I get the following error:
Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Xmla.XmlaException: Errors related to feature availability and configuration: The 'Synchronize' feature is not included in the '64 Bit Standard Edition' SKU. at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Xmla.XmlaClient.CheckForSoapFault(XmlReader reader, XmlaResult xmlaResult, Boolean throwIfError)
Which will teach me for using SQL Developer Edition for all my testing only to have Standard in production...
But I can't for the life of me find any SSAS documenation that points out what's in Standard vs Enterprise when it comes to Sync.
I know "peer-to-peer" for the DB Engine required the Enterprise Edition, but closest mention for SSAS is "Scalable shared databases" is only supported in Ent. Does that cover Sync?
What's dumb, is that the SSMS UI lets me attempt to set up a sync (I don't have enough of an environment to see how far it will really let me go), even though it knows it's connected to Standard edition.
A) can someone confirm that I'm going to have to upgrade my production SSAS (and all the other SQL bits, as they're on the same server) to Enterprise Edition and
B) point me at some solid documenation (all the MSDN and TechNet SQL 2008 R2 edition comparisson documenation seems to be unavailable today) that I can take to my boss to justify the edition jump and
C) anyone got any pointers on doing an in-place edition upgrade? Anything I should watch out for?
Thanks
Craig