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The following server operating system are supported.

• Windows Server 2012

• Windows Server 2012 R2

• Windows Server 2016

• Windows Server 2019

• Windows Server 2022

Microsoft SQL Server

Workbench will work with the following SQL Server versions.

• SQL Server 2014

• SQL Server

  2012

  2016

• SQL Server

  2014

  2017

• SQL Server

  2016

  2019

• SQL Server

  2017

  2022

Expression versions are supported if the databases are under 10 GB.

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Workbench will work with any standard collation sequence that:

• has a character set compatible with English

• is case insensitive

• is not binary

The default collation settings on the SQL Server installation are an appropriate configuration.

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Although SQL Sever will run on laptops and PCs, for anything more than one or two users, an appropriately specified server box is required:

• 4+ Cores Intel Xeon E5-2600 v1 series (and above) or similar AMD

  Processor

  Processors *

• 8GB+ DDR4 RAM (recommended: 16GB+ RAM for SQL Server Standard/Enterprise)

• Hard Disk OS > 64GB (recommended: RAID 1 SSD)

• Hard Disk Data > 240GB (recommended: RAID 1 SSD

  , or RAID 10 SAS 15k rpm,

  or 10 Gbps FC adapter to equivalent SAN)

• Gigabit Network Interface
• Redundant Power Supplies

* Cores are specified as Workbench can run on a Virtual Machine.

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services or SSRS is packaged with each version of SQL. It is installed as a separate component from the SQL Server database engine. The version of SQL Server Database Engine and SSRS do not need to be the same.

The following versions are supported:

• SQL Server 2016
• SQL Server 2017

SSRS is often deployed on the same server as SQL Server, but can be on it's own server.

Reporting Mode needs to installed in 'Native' mode and NOT SharePoint mode.

PowerShell

PowerShell v5.0 or above is required.