SQL Server - 2012

Cool new features for Database Administrators

Deepthi AnantharamTechnology Evangelist Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd

Agenda

Always ON Column Store Contained Databases Server Roles – User defined Partitions Intellisense Functions

REVENUE

ELECTRONIC24X7 GLOBAL BUSINESS

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What is your HA/DR Plan?

Traditional Choices

Logshipping Replication Mirroring Clustering

Solution is fragmented Lacks flexibility

Always ON

ALWAYS ON

Always ON Availability groups Active Multiple Secondaries System center integration Supports file streaming, contained databases Automatic Page repair

Column Store Index

In memory Column Store Index Stores Index data Column wise

Online index rebuilding for varchar(max), nvarchar(max),

User defined Server level roles

9 server roles available

Create new Server roles – Add members and drop members from it

Partitioned Tables

Limit raised from 1000 to 15000 (Table and Index partitioning ) Performance improvements Maintain partitions

intellisense

Based on partial words and not first few characters Tools > Options

Enable Line numbers

Auto List members

T-SQL enhancements

Windows Functions

FIRST_VALUELAST_VALUELAGLEADPERCENT_RANKPERCENTILE_CONTPERCENTILE_DISC

Date & time Functions

DATEFROMPARTSDATETIME2FROMPARTSDATETIMEFROMPARTSDATETIMEOFFSETFROMPARTSSMALLDATETIMEFROMPARTSTIMEFROMPARTSEOMONTH

Logical FunctionsIIFCHOOSE

Sequences

Other new features Sequences Power View – The self Service tool Transparent data encryption Master data Services Data Quality services Visual Studio IDE

DBA on the cloud DBA for Big Data DBA for PDWs

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