Using SQL Server as a Database sources for Essbase and Planning

I was reading Jake Turrell white Paper on Hyperion Planning "sandbox" enviroment on a laptop and he stated that you can use SQL Server, u guess my question is i have been using oracle 11gr2 is there really any different
also
is best to build different schema for
Shared Services
workspace
Essbase Admin Srvices
Planning system Respostory
Planning App's
Calc manager
and
Finanical Reporting and web analysis
i have been just buildint the Instance n Oracle and making a schema for planning
Please advise
Edited by: Next Level on Oct 18, 2012 9:27 PM
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Edited by: Next Level on Oct 18, 2012 10:11 PM

FWIW, my own (ugh) install of 11.1.1.3 32 bit on my laptop (oh, soon I am going to jettison this thing and move to a 32 gig laptop) I am using SQL Server 2005. A client from last year used the same release of SS but I think the 64 bit release. John Booth's EPM AMI uses SQL Server Express 2008. IOW, yeah, you can totally use SQL Server with the EPM suite. I think that there is an exception for ERPi, but I could be wrong about that. For sure I used ODI 11.1.1.5 with SQL Server as I (gasp) set that up myself out on the cloud.
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