SQL: Standard Developer Edition is a Welcome New Addition
If you’ve installed the public preview of SQL Server 2025, you will have noticed that the list of free editions that you can install, has increased.
Instead of just Evaluation, Developer, and Express, the list is now as shown above, with Developer split into Standard Developer and Enterprise Developer.
While the naming of the new editions sound like they are describing the person using them, they are about the included features.
2025-06-15