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3. Denali = SQL 2012
• Availability. HADR: The 9s you need
 AlwaysOn
 AlwaysOn provides database-level failover
 Integrated and updated log shipping and mirroring
 Clustering provides instance-level failover
 New jargon: Availability Groups, Replicas
• Speed
 New Columnstore index type

4.  Dramatically Improved query performance
• New index type ‘columnstore’
• Reduces ETL times since columnstore indexes reduce
the need to rely on summary tables, and indexed
(materialized) views.
• Groups and stores data for each column and then
joins all the columns to complete the whole index.
• Faster performance for common data warehousing
queries such as filtering, aggregating, grouping, and
star-join queries.
 Rapid insight via Crescent and PowerPivot
• Data warehouse products like blueCube solve similar
problems. Now built-in to SQL 2012.

5. Always On
SQL Reporting Services is now a
SharePoint 2010 Service Application
Powershell for SQL
• Allows scripting and automation of complex
tasks

6. Write applications once, run anywhere with
Juneau Developer Tools
Database and application development all
in one place. Integrates with BIDS and
Visual Studio.

7. High availability improvements
• Will research using Always On tools to reduce
recovery times
 SQL 2012’s performance enhancements will benefit all
our SQL-based apps
 CPM and dashboards provide improved management
and monitoring
 Improved online application of updates and OS patches.

8. DBA tech heaven
• Cloud
 Iaas, Saas, Paas
 Cost, trust, vendorlock, latency
• Trace Flags
• Upgrades
• Performance tuning
 worst offenders
• Centralized Policy Management
 Reduces need for 3rd party tools

9. Hadoop
• Apache’s open license Distributed File System
• Unstructured database technology
 Non-relational
 Insight over consistency
 Easier to manage at petabyte scale than relational
databases

10.  SQL 2008 is robust
• Meets Drake’s needs
• Drake’s environment is not especially large, but we are big
enough to have many of the problems that come with size.
 SQL 2012 is aiming for gigantic data warehousing
environments
• Big data capability will become the new normal
• SQL 2012 includes speed and management enhancements that
will help organizations of any size.
 SQL PASS is valuable
• The SQL PASS community provides ongoing instruction,
motivation and inspiration.
• Keeping informed of industry and technological trends.
• Seeing what’s coming and how to apply the new tools to the
issues we face here at Drake.