3739963 - ABAP DBCON to Microsoft SQL Server 2025 new edition "Standard Developer edition"

• You plan to set up a DBCON connection in your ABAP instance system to connect to an external Microsoft SQL Server 2025 (17.x) database version, whose edition is the new "Microsoft SQL Server 2025" 'Standard Developer edition'.
• You plan to configure the DBCON entry including MSSQL_SE=1 parameter.
  
  

DBCON connection test returns following error message:

"The DBSL library supports only connections to the SQL Server Database Engine with the Engine Edition = 3. #The target SQL Server Engine Edition is 2"

"What's new in SQL Server 2025"

  > "New developer editions":

      - 'Standard Developer edition'.              
      - 'Enterprise Developer edition'.

Microsoft SQL Server 2025 'Edition changes'

New developer edition: (For features by edition, review Editions and supported features of SQL Server 2025) 'Standard Developer edition'.

You connected to the external non-SAP Microsoft SQL Server 2025 database instance through SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and executed following SQL queries:

  SELECT
  SERVERPROPERTY('Edition'),
  SERVERPROPERTY('EngineEdition'),
  SERVERPROPERTY('ProductVersion')

the result is:

  'Edition' Standard Developer Edition (64-bit)
  'EngineEdition' 2
  'ProductVersion' 17.0.1000.7

According to Microsoft SERVERPROPERTY table values for EditionID,Edition and EngineEdition:

² Applies to: SQL Server 2025 (17.x) and later versions. 

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