I have taken over a client, who had an inhouse developer. The inhouse developer used SQL Server 2014 Evaluation (which I believe/assume is Enterprise)?
Regardless, their SQL Server eval has now expired, and they are "locked" into buying SQL Server, as their whole app infrastructure now sits in SQL Server 2014.
Will the database of an evaluation version of SQL Server, spool up in a SQL Server 2014 Express version?
I don't right now have the architecture at hand to test this scenario, and would like some ideas around the best way to resolve this. As it is now, they are dead in the water.
The client does not need anything specific to 2014 Standard or enterprise version for that matter (to my knowledge), and they are only about 30 users, using the app inhouse.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
As long as it fits within the constraints of Sql Server Express edition, yes.
There are CPU, memory, and database size restrictions as well as some feature restrictions
See Microsoft website for edition comparison: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993.aspx
Once you've installed SQL Express, you should be able to just attach the database files to Express Edition, or backup and restore. see: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190209.aspx