What is new in SQL Server 2008 R2

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What’s New in SQL Server 2008 R2?
Leigh Verhave
Senior DBA
Red Rock Consulting

Overview
Two New Editions
SQL Server 2008 R2 Data Center
SQL Server 2008 Parallel Data Server
Backup & Data Compression
Multi Server Management
Master Data Services
Power Pivot
Self Server BI
Complex Event Processing (CEP)
SQL Server 2008 R2

SQL Server 2008 Data Center
>8 Physical Processors – 256 Logical Processors
Enterprise now only supports 8 Physical
Virtualization Support
One licensed node can support unlimited virtual SQL Server Instances
Enterprise can only support 4
StreamInsight CEP
>25 instances for multi server management
RockSolid does a better job if you are using it
SQL Server 2008 R2

Parallel Data Server
MPP Distributed Data Warehouse
think Teradata, Netezza, Vertica etc
Supports 100s of Terabytes of data
Analytical style queries only
Long running, high touch, high impact queries
Low concurrency typical on MPP
Only supported in “preconfigured” systems from certain hardware vendors
DELL, HP, BULL etc
Microsoft aiming for SUD$11K per terabyte
One of the lowest costs per terabyte of any MPP vendor
Not fully compatible with traditional TSQL
SQL standards supported, TSQL extensions not so much
SSRS, SSIS & SSAS integration
SQL Server 2008 R2

R2 DBA Features
Data and index partitioning
Instant file initialization
Windows 2003 Server and above
Online Re-index and create
Online Restore
Database available when primary file restored
Backup compression
R2 standard edition
SQL Server 2008
Data compression (vardecimaldatatype in SQL Server 2005)
Data change auditing (Change Data Capture)
Resource Governor (CPU & Memory)
SQL Server 2008 R2

Power Pivot
Power Pivot
Power Pivot is an in memory column store
Runs on SQL Server client
Integrates with Excel 2010 & Sharepoint 2010
Allows for large datasets to be quickly sliced & diced
Self Service Business Intelligence
DAC
SQL Server 2008 R2

Why Upgrade?
Upgrade to 2008 R2 not 2008
SQL Server 2000 Support is being phased out
Mainstream support has expired (some support available until 2013 by Microsoft)
Backup compression
Data compression
General database and optimizer improvements
Reporting services improvements
New graph types in 2008
SQL Server 2008 R2

How to Upgrade?
If you are a support customer?
Ask us. We can help here.
Otherwise the upgrade advisor is a good place to start
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f5a6c5e9-4cd9-4e42-a21c-7291e7f0f852&displaylang=en
SQL Server 2008 R2

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What is new in SQL Server 2008 R2

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