Thank you for clarifying.
>It's done via licensing. If you have production databases on the Developer Edition, it's considered production. AFIAK, there are no limitations on database size. Because your notebook is local, you'll be ok with that.
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>>How do they (MSFT) restrict the use for testing and not production?
>>I have a couple of SQL Server databases that I use for my own business, for learning SQL Server and testing it. Is that considered to be production? Is there a limit on number of tables/rows the database can have? Also, my notebook is my local pc and my server. Is there a problem there?
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>>Thank you.
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