Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 is a cloud-ready information platform that will help organizations unlock breakthrough insights across the organization and quickly build solutions to extend data across on-premises and public cloud, backed by mission critical confidence.
Attunity Efficient ODR For Sql Server Using Attunity CDC Suite For SSIS Slide...Melissa Kolodziej
This slidedeck focuses on how to leverage your SQL Server skills & software to reduce cost & accelerate SQL Server data replication, synchronization, & real-time integration while enabling operational reporting, business intelligence & data warehousing projects. It also highlights CDC concepts & benefits and how CDC can assist you with data replication projects. Screenshots are included to demonstrate Attunity\'s CDC Suite for SSIS.
Customer migration to azure sql database from on-premises SQL, for a SaaS app...George Walters
Why would someone take a working on-premises SaaS infrastructure, and migrate it to Azure? We review the technology decisions behind this conversion, and business choices behind migrating to Azure. The SQL 2012 infrastructure and application was migrated to PaaS Services. Finally, how would we do this architecture in 2019.
Introduction to Microsoft’s Master Data Services (MDS)James Serra
Master Data Services is bundled with SQL Server 2012 to help resolve many of the Master Data Management issues that companies are faced with when integrating data. In this session, James will show an overview of Master Data Services 2012, including the out of the box Web UI, the highly developed Excel Add-in, and how to get started with loading MDS with your data.
Attunity Efficient ODR For Sql Server Using Attunity CDC Suite For SSIS Slide...Melissa Kolodziej
This slidedeck focuses on how to leverage your SQL Server skills & software to reduce cost & accelerate SQL Server data replication, synchronization, & real-time integration while enabling operational reporting, business intelligence & data warehousing projects. It also highlights CDC concepts & benefits and how CDC can assist you with data replication projects. Screenshots are included to demonstrate Attunity\'s CDC Suite for SSIS.
Customer migration to azure sql database from on-premises SQL, for a SaaS app...George Walters
Why would someone take a working on-premises SaaS infrastructure, and migrate it to Azure? We review the technology decisions behind this conversion, and business choices behind migrating to Azure. The SQL 2012 infrastructure and application was migrated to PaaS Services. Finally, how would we do this architecture in 2019.
Introduction to Microsoft’s Master Data Services (MDS)James Serra
Master Data Services is bundled with SQL Server 2012 to help resolve many of the Master Data Management issues that companies are faced with when integrating data. In this session, James will show an overview of Master Data Services 2012, including the out of the box Web UI, the highly developed Excel Add-in, and how to get started with loading MDS with your data.
Do you lose precious time due to data quality problems?
Do you need to integrate data from multiples sources and provide an integrated view of your customer or product attributes to other systems?
SQL Server 2016 Data Quality and Master Data Services can help you.
2020 Cloud Data Lake Platforms Buyers Guide - White paper | QuboleVasu S
Qubole's buyer guide about how cloud data lake platform helps organizations to achieve efficiency & agility by adopting an open data lake platform and why data lakes are moving to the cloud
https://www.qubole.com/resources/white-papers/2020-cloud-data-lake-platforms-buyers-guide
Watch full webinar here: https://buff.ly/2MwDyhq
The use of Data Virtualization as a global delivery layer means that Denodo is a critical component of the data architecture. It cannot fail, needs to be fault tolerant and perform as designed. In this context, enterprise level-monitoring is key to make sure the virtual layer is in good health and proactively detect potential issues. Fortunately, Denodo provides a full suite of monitoring capabilities and integrates with leading monitoring tools like Splunk, Elastic and CloudWatch.
Attend this session to learn:
- How to configure the key global parameters of the Denodo server
- How to integrate Denodo with enterprise monitoring solutions like Splunk and Cloudwatch
- Key metrics to monitor
Pervasive analytics through data & analytic centricityCloudera, Inc.
Cloudera and Teradata discuss the best-in-class solution enabling companies to put data and analytics at the center of their strategy, achieve the highest forms of agility, while reducing the costs and complexity of their current environment.
Data Services and the Modern Data Ecosystem (ASEAN)Denodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/2YdstdU
Digital Transformation has changed IT the way information services are delivered. The pace of business engagement, the rise of Digital IT (formerly known as “Shadow IT), has also increased demands on IT, especially in the area of Data Management.
Data Services exploits widely adopted interoperability standards, providing a strong framework for information exchange but also has enabled growth of robust systems of engagement that can now exploit information that was normally locked away in some internal silo with Data Virtualization.
We will discuss how a business can easily support and manage a Data Service platform, providing a more flexible approach for information sharing supporting an ever-diverse community of consumers.
Watch this on-demand webinar as we cover:
- Why Data Services are a critical part of a modern data ecosystem
- How IT teams can manage Data Services and the increasing demand by businesses
- How Digital IT can benefit from Data Services and how this can support the need for rapid prototyping allowing businesses to experiment with data and fail fast where necessary
- How a good Data Virtualization platform can encourage a culture of Data amongst business consumers (internally and externally)
Do you lose precious time due to data quality problems?
Do you need to integrate data from multiples sources and provide an integrated view of your customer or product attributes to other systems?
SQL Server 2016 Data Quality and Master Data Services can help you.
2020 Cloud Data Lake Platforms Buyers Guide - White paper | QuboleVasu S
Qubole's buyer guide about how cloud data lake platform helps organizations to achieve efficiency & agility by adopting an open data lake platform and why data lakes are moving to the cloud
https://www.qubole.com/resources/white-papers/2020-cloud-data-lake-platforms-buyers-guide
Watch full webinar here: https://buff.ly/2MwDyhq
The use of Data Virtualization as a global delivery layer means that Denodo is a critical component of the data architecture. It cannot fail, needs to be fault tolerant and perform as designed. In this context, enterprise level-monitoring is key to make sure the virtual layer is in good health and proactively detect potential issues. Fortunately, Denodo provides a full suite of monitoring capabilities and integrates with leading monitoring tools like Splunk, Elastic and CloudWatch.
Attend this session to learn:
- How to configure the key global parameters of the Denodo server
- How to integrate Denodo with enterprise monitoring solutions like Splunk and Cloudwatch
- Key metrics to monitor
Pervasive analytics through data & analytic centricityCloudera, Inc.
Cloudera and Teradata discuss the best-in-class solution enabling companies to put data and analytics at the center of their strategy, achieve the highest forms of agility, while reducing the costs and complexity of their current environment.
Data Services and the Modern Data Ecosystem (ASEAN)Denodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/2YdstdU
Digital Transformation has changed IT the way information services are delivered. The pace of business engagement, the rise of Digital IT (formerly known as “Shadow IT), has also increased demands on IT, especially in the area of Data Management.
Data Services exploits widely adopted interoperability standards, providing a strong framework for information exchange but also has enabled growth of robust systems of engagement that can now exploit information that was normally locked away in some internal silo with Data Virtualization.
We will discuss how a business can easily support and manage a Data Service platform, providing a more flexible approach for information sharing supporting an ever-diverse community of consumers.
Watch this on-demand webinar as we cover:
- Why Data Services are a critical part of a modern data ecosystem
- How IT teams can manage Data Services and the increasing demand by businesses
- How Digital IT can benefit from Data Services and how this can support the need for rapid prototyping allowing businesses to experiment with data and fail fast where necessary
- How a good Data Virtualization platform can encourage a culture of Data amongst business consumers (internally and externally)
Speed up Microsoft business intelligence development and administration. BI xPress is an SSIS and SSAS tool that integrates directly into Visual Studio for developers, and has a launcher application for DBAs who prefer to not work in BIDS. It allows you to quickly build packages, install robust auditing frameworks, and helps DBAs deploy packages. To find answers to common questions, please visit our Product FAQs page. http://pragmaticworks.com/Products/BI-xPress.aspx
Whitepaper Building Power BI Solutions with Power QueryMILL5
Through Self-Service BI, business units can personalize Business
Intelligence to their needs and solve problems at a much faster rate than any traditional BI solution. This is why businesses are looking to Self-Service BI to solve the smaller, but no less significant, problems that individual departments need addressed.
Introduces the Microsoft’s Data Platform for on premise and cloud. Challenges businesses are facing with data and sources of data. Understand about Evolution of Database Systems in the modern world and what business are doing with their data and what their new needs are with respect to changing industry landscapes.
Dive into the Opportunities available for businesses and industry verticals: the ones which are identified already and the ones which are not explored yet.
Understand the Microsoft’s Cloud vision and what is Microsoft’s Azure platform is offering, for Infrastructure as a Service or Platform as a Service for you to build your own offerings.
Introduce and demo some of the Real World Scenarios/Case Studies where Businesses have used the Cloud/Azure for creating New and Innovative solutions to unlock these potentials.
How SQL Server Can Streamline Database AdministrationDirect Deals, LLC
In addition to ensuring data integrity, this approach delivers heightened scalability and availability for critical data sets. Also, SQL Server 2022 has a variety of editions, such as SQL Server 2022 Standard and more. Now you must know that, by embracing this solution, businesses can effortlessly scale their operations, accommodating increased workloads and user demands without sacrificing responsiveness.
Read More: - https://www.directdeals.com/how-sql-server-can-streamline-database-administration
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is a new flavor of Azure SQL Database that is a game changer. It offers near-complete SQL Server compatibility and network isolation to easily lift and shift databases to Azure (you can literally backup an on-premise database and restore it into a Azure SQL Database Managed Instance). Think of it as an enhancement to Azure SQL Database that is built on the same PaaS infrastructure and maintains all it's features (i.e. active geo-replication, high availability, automatic backups, database advisor, threat detection, intelligent insights, vulnerability assessment, etc) but adds support for databases up to 35TB, VNET, SQL Agent, cross-database querying, replication, etc. So, you can migrate your databases from on-prem to Azure with very little migration effort which is a big improvement from the current Singleton or Elastic Pool flavors which can require substantial changes.
Introduction to microsoft sql server 2008 r2Eduardo Castro
In this presentation we review the new features in SQL 2008 R2.
Regards,
Ing. Eduardo Castro Martinez, PhD
http://comunidadwindows.org
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
Think of big data as all data, no matter what the volume, velocity, or variety. The simple truth is a traditional on-prem data warehouse will not handle big data. So what is Microsoft’s strategy for building a big data solution? And why is it best to have this solution in the cloud? That is what this presentation will cover. Be prepared to discover all the various Microsoft technologies and products from collecting data, transforming it, storing it, to visualizing it. My goal is to help you not only understand each product but understand how they all fit together, so you can be the hero who builds your companies big data solution.
Self service BI with sql server 2008 R2 and microsoft power pivot shortEduardo Castro
In this presentation we summarize BI improvements in SQL Server 2008 R2 and PowerPivot.
Regards,
Dr. Eduardo Castro
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
http://comunidadwindows.org
Caserta Concepts, Datameer and Microsoft shared their combined knowledge and a use case on big data, the cloud and deep analytics. Attendes learned how a global leader in the test, measurement and control systems market reduced their big data implementations from 18 months to just a few.
Speakers shared how to provide a business user-friendly, self-service environment for data discovery and analytics, and focus on how to extend and optimize Hadoop based analytics, highlighting the advantages and practical applications of deploying on the cloud for enhanced performance, scalability and lower TCO.
Agenda included:
- Pizza and Networking
- Joe Caserta, President, Caserta Concepts - Why are we here?
- Nikhil Kumar, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Datameer - Solution use cases and technical demonstration
- Stefan Groschupf, CEO & Chairman, Datameer - The evolving Hadoop-based analytics trends and the role of cloud computing
- James Serra, Data Platform Solution Architect, Microsoft, Benefits of the Azure Cloud Service
- Q&A, Networking
For more information on Caserta Concepts, visit our website: http://casertaconcepts.com/
The cloud is all the rage. Does it live up to its hype? What are the benefits of the cloud? Join me as I discuss the reasons so many companies are moving to the cloud and demo how to get up and running with a VM (IaaS) and a database (PaaS) in Azure. See why the ability to scale easily, the quickness that you can create a VM, and the built-in redundancy are just some of the reasons that moving to the cloud a “no brainer”. And if you have an on-prem datacenter, learn how to get out of the air-conditioning business!
These Windows Azure and SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure) tutorials are designed for beginners who have some .NET development experience. Using a common
scenario, each tutorial introduces one or two Windows Azure features or components. Even though each tutorial builds upon the previous ones, the tutorials are self-contained and can be used without completing the previous tutorials.
Windows Azure and SQL Database Tutorials; Jonathan Gao. These Windows Azure and SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure) tutorials are
designed for beginners who have some .NET development experience. Using a common
scenario, each tutorial introduces one or two Windows Azure features or components.
Even though each tutorial builds upon the previous ones, the tutorials are self-contained
and can be used without completing the previous tutorials.
The Forrester Wave of Self Service BI PlatformsMILL5
Forrester Wave: Self-Service Business Intelligence Platforms. Key Take-aways: IT can no longer support the majority of BI Requirements; Self-Service BI Features are Key to Empowering Data Consumers; Your Enterprise BI Platform May Already Provide Most of the Self-Service Features you are interested in.
Cloud on your terms. Why SQL Server; Definitions, Database Scenarios, Rationale for usage, TCO (CAPEX & OPEX), To to Solution, Application Needs, Why Microsoft for Hybrid IT, Why SQL Server for Hybrid IT; Scale on Demand; Fast Time to Market; Optimized Productivity; Extend Any Data, Anywhere.
Business executive leadership, who typically drive the need for BI solutions, are primarily focused on the end user aspect of BI: OLAP reporting and dashboards. However it is vital for businesses to understand that ETL, Integration, Data Modeling, and Data Warehousing form the cornerstones of a successful BI solution. The time and energy spent on selecting an enterprise ETL solution along with designing finely tuned and highly performing ETL processes will ultimately produce “clean” data ready to be consumed by the business. Traditionally, ETL Tools have been extremely expensive, and some of them still are. While these tools have superb functionality and support, the question remains, “does every organization need all the functionality they provide or are there cheaper alternatives that would do the job just as well?”
Building Self-Service BI Solutions with Power Query
Through Self-Service BI, business units can personalize Business Intelligence to their needs and solve problems at a much faster
rate than any traditional BI solution. This is why businesses are looking to Self-Service BI to solve the smaller, but no less significant, problems that individual departments need addressed. The goal of this white paper is to focus on using and understanding one of Microsoft’s latest Self-Service BI tools called Power Query.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Welocme to ViralQR, your best QR code generator.ViralQR
Welcome to ViralQR, your best QR code generator available on the market!
At ViralQR, we design static and dynamic QR codes. Our mission is to make business operations easier and customer engagement more powerful through the use of QR technology. Be it a small-scale business or a huge enterprise, our easy-to-use platform provides multiple choices that can be tailored according to your company's branding and marketing strategies.
Our Vision
We are here to make the process of creating QR codes easy and smooth, thus enhancing customer interaction and making business more fluid. We very strongly believe in the ability of QR codes to change the world for businesses in their interaction with customers and are set on making that technology accessible and usable far and wide.
Our Achievements
Ever since its inception, we have successfully served many clients by offering QR codes in their marketing, service delivery, and collection of feedback across various industries. Our platform has been recognized for its ease of use and amazing features, which helped a business to make QR codes.
Our Services
At ViralQR, here is a comprehensive suite of services that caters to your very needs:
Static QR Codes: Create free static QR codes. These QR codes are able to store significant information such as URLs, vCards, plain text, emails and SMS, Wi-Fi credentials, and Bitcoin addresses.
Dynamic QR codes: These also have all the advanced features but are subscription-based. They can directly link to PDF files, images, micro-landing pages, social accounts, review forms, business pages, and applications. In addition, they can be branded with CTAs, frames, patterns, colors, and logos to enhance your branding.
Pricing and Packages
Additionally, there is a 14-day free offer to ViralQR, which is an exceptional opportunity for new users to take a feel of this platform. One can easily subscribe from there and experience the full dynamic of using QR codes. The subscription plans are not only meant for business; they are priced very flexibly so that literally every business could afford to benefit from our service.
Why choose us?
ViralQR will provide services for marketing, advertising, catering, retail, and the like. The QR codes can be posted on fliers, packaging, merchandise, and banners, as well as to substitute for cash and cards in a restaurant or coffee shop. With QR codes integrated into your business, improve customer engagement and streamline operations.
Comprehensive Analytics
Subscribers of ViralQR receive detailed analytics and tracking tools in light of having a view of the core values of QR code performance. Our analytics dashboard shows aggregate views and unique views, as well as detailed information about each impression, including time, device, browser, and estimated location by city and country.
So, thank you for choosing ViralQR; we have an offer of nothing but the best in terms of QR code services to meet business diversity!
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Elizabeth Buie - Older adults: Are we really designing for our future selves?
Sql Server 2012 Datasheet
1. 1
http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/product-info/benchmarks.aspx
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 is a
cloud-ready information platform
that will help organizations unlock
breakthrough insights across the
organization and quickly build
solutions to extend data across on-
premises and public cloud, backed
by mission critical confidence.
Highlights
The 9s you need with
AlwaysOn
Blazing-fast query
performance with
ColumnStore Index
Rapid data discovery via
Power View and PowerPivot
Credible, consistent data via
BI Semantic Model and Data
Quality Services
Scale on demand from
devices to datacenter to
cloud
Write applications once, run
anywhere with SQL Server
Data Tools
Mission Critical Confidence
Enable mission critical
environments including
availability and performance at
low TCO
Required 9s and protection
Deliver required uptime and data
protection, server to cloud without
wasting time and money
Help reduce planned and unplanned
downtime with the new integrated
high availability and disaster
recovery solution, SQL Server
AlwaysOn.
Achieve maximum application
availability and data protection with
options to configure multiple
secondaries and ability to quickly
failover and recover applications.
Significantly reduce OS patching
with new support for Windows®
Server Core.
Eliminate idle hardware and improve
IT cost efficiency and performance
using Active Secondary which
enables offloading of various
workloads to the secondary
instances.
Maintain uptime during
maintenance operations using
enhanced online operations and
eliminate planned downtime on
Hyper-VTM environment using Live
Migration.
Simplify deployment and
management of high availability
requirements using integrated
configuration and monitoring tools.
Achieve highest level of availability
regardless of whether applications
are deployed on-premise or on
Microsoft private or public cloud.
Blazing-fast performance
Gain breakthrough and predictable
performance backed by industry-
leading benchmarks
Make a bet on a trusted platform
that continuously leads in industry-
relevant TPC-E and TPC-H
performance benchmarks¹. Release
over release SQL Server is SAP-
certified to run some of the
industry’s most demanding
workloads.
Overview
2. Significantly boost query
performance, by up to ~100x for
star join and similar queries, using
the new ColumnStore Index.
Support blazing fast queries with
dramatic improvements to Full-Text
Search that offer serious
performance and scale advances.
Accelerate the performance of I/O
intensive workloads by cutting
growing volumes of data ~50-60%
with compression capabilities.
Gain consistent performance for
concurrent and mixed workloads by
defining resource usage across
different applications with Resource
Governor.
Analyze query execution plans,
capture database activity, optimize
indexes and structures, and help
ensure consistent query
performance with familiar, easy-to-
use management tools.
Organizational security and
compliance
Help enable security and
compliance with built-in security
and IT controls
Easily manage permissions around
data access with User-Defined
Server Roles to support separation
of duties.
Help ensure security enhanced
deployments and minimize surface-
area attacks by enabling only
required services through
Configuration Manager—built-in
services turned off by default.
Help secure end user data analytics
with built-in IT controls, including
new Microsoft SharePoint® and
Active Directory® security models
for end user reports published and
shared in SharePoint.
Control database access to
deployed applications while
improving manageability through
Contained Database Authentication
that uses self-contained access
information without the need for
server logins.
Help protect data with built-in
encryption capabilities that help
protect confidential information
without changes to the application.
Help ensure compliance and
increase manageability related to
auditing with audit resilience,
filtering, user-defined audit, and
enablement across all SQL Server
editions.
Increase manageability and
decrease complexity of database
schema through Default Schema for
Groups by allowing a default
database schema for Windows
group user accounts.
Peace of mind
Help ensure peace of mind with
premier services and support, a
trusted partner ecosystem, and a
wealth of free tools
Microsoft’s Premier Mission Critical
Support and the Microsoft Critical
Advantage Program, provide the
services and support needed for
companies to establish the proactive
IT environment and operations
necessary to deliver maximum
availability and performance to their
Mission Critical Applications.
Microsoft offers a broad ecosystem
of partners with more than 640,000
partners, including best-of-breed
applications from vendors such as
SAP, Temenos, and Kronos® as well
as partnerships with leading OEMs
like Dell, HP, and EMC®.
Microsoft delivers piece of mind
with the licensing program,
Enterprise Application Program,
which offers unlimited support to
customers with specific software
assurance plans
Unlike many software companies,
Microsoft offers free access to
software service packs.
Quickly plan for an upgrade or
migration with a wealth of no-fee
tools developed by Microsoft
engineers and available online.
Breakthrough Insight
Unlock new insights with
pervasive data discovery across
the organization
Rapid data discovery
Plow through mounds of data for
deeper insights with rapid data
exploration and visualization
Discover and share insight across all
levels of the organization with
Power View that offers highly
interactive web-based drag-and-
drop data querying and
visualizations for insights at the
speed of thought.
Sift through mounds of data in a
familiar way at lightning-fast speeds
in Excel with the award winning
PowerPivot add-in, including new
advanced analytic capabilities.
Inspire data discovery innovation
across end users with data mash-up
capabilities including connectivity to
cloud-based data in SQL AzureTM
DataMarket or via third-party
providers with Open Data Protocol
(OData).
Scalable & managed
self-service BI
Enable accessible intelligence across
the organization through managed
self-service BI, IT dashboards, and
SharePoint collaboration
3. Provide a complete view for reports
and dashboards across
heterogeneous data sources with
the BI Semantic Model that can
scale from small personal BI
solutions to the largest
organizational BI needs.
Offload IT tasks and reduce support
requests with self-service analytics
tools, like Power View and
PowerPivot that scale to thousands
across the organization.
Balance the need to monitor,
manage, and govern the data and
analytics end users create with IT
dashboards and controls that help IT
monitor end user activity, data
source usage, and gather
performance metrics from servers.
Make information-based decisions
part of everyday life with SharePoint
integration for insights
collaboration, and custom Alerts
that keep users apprised of relevant
data changes.
Extend rich user insights to even
more people with SQL Azure
Reporting that removes the need for
deploying and maintaining a
reporting infrastructure.
Deploy more than just breathtaking
end user analytics tools, SQL Server
continues to deliver end-to-end BI
through easy to stand up and
manage traditional OLAP and
reporting cubes.
Credible, consistent data
Provide a complete view across
business data and help ensure data
confidence through integration,
cleansing, and management
Reduce time-to-solution for
innovative, team-based data
integration across data sources by
utilizing the industry-leading tools
in SQL Server Integration Services
(SSIS) that help deliver credible,
consistent data reliably and
efficiently.
Improve data quality by using
organizational knowledge and third-
party reference data providers to
reliably profile, cleanse, and match
data with the new SQL Server Data
Quality Services - run as a
standalone or leverage SSIS.
Create, maintain, store, and access
master data structures used for
object mapping, reference data, and
metadata management with Master
Data Services (MDS) while a new
MDS Add-in for Excel makes it easy
for end users to manage and
maintain central data.
Complete data warehouse
solutions
Gain scale and flexibility with
complete data warehousing
solutions that offer massive scale at
low cost
Help reduce data warehouse costs
with reference architectures and
appliances designed to offer
incredible performance at a low
price per terabyte.
Choose hardware and deployment
options to suit unique
organizational needs with Fast Track
configurations from 11 hardware
vendors or software only solutions,
reference architectures and
appliances.
Scale data warehouses with built-in
database features like Remote Blob
Storage and partitioned tables that
scale to 15,000 partitions that
support large sliding window
scenarios.
Gain high scale with support for up
to 256 cores – enabling high-
performance for very large
workloads or consolidation
scenarios.
Leverage best practices and drive
fast time to market with data
warehouse reference architectures
and appliances that help deliver
faster time to solution.
Scale to 100s of TB while
maintaining high performance
through Massively Parallel
Processing (MPP) architecture with
Parallel Data Warehouse.
Cloud On Your Terms
Create and scale business
solutions fast, on your terms
from server to private or public
cloud
Scale on demand
Scale on demand with flexible
deployment options on your terms
server to cloud
Gain operational flexibility with
proven Microsoft cloud offerings,
private or public, that deliver
interoperable deployment options
with SQL Server 2012.
Break free and scale beyond the
constraints of any one deployment
environment by taking advantage of
a common architecture spanning
traditional servers, appliances, and
the cloud.
Gain virtualized, on-demand
capacity and self-service
provisioning and usage metering
with Microsoft private and public
cloud offerings across SQL Server
2012 and SQL Azure.
Start small or leverage large scale
with SQL Azure, a cloud database
service, running in Microsoft’s global
datacenters, which offers a pay-as-
you-grow business model and
guaranteed SLA uptimes.
4. Fast time to solution
Reduce complexity and accelerate
time to solution through appliance
and private or public cloud
offerings
Speed time to solution with SQL
Server appliances by eliminating the
time to design, tune and test all the
hardware and software components.
Accelerate top organizational
priorities with appliances for data
warehousing of varying sizes,
business intelligence, private cloud,
consolidation, and transaction
processing.
Microsoft collaborates with partners
to design, optimize and tune
appliances and define reference
architectures that help deliver an
incredible price/ performance.
Provision databases in minutes
without any physical administration
or infrastructure investments with
SQL Azure.
Optimized productivity
Optimize IT and developer
productivity across server and cloud
with common tools
Take database development to the
next level with SQL Server Data
Tools, an integrated development
experience for developers building
next-generation web, enterprise,
and data-aware mobile applications
across on-premises and public
cloud.
Build, deploy, and manage database
or business intelligence solutions
across on-premises and cloud
environments using the same
development tools, frameworks and
T-SQL based model.
Manage efficiently at scale with a
single console, SQL Server
Management Studio (SSMS), to
deploy and manage database assets
across servers, private cloud and
public cloud. Additionally, use SSMS
to manage high availability
configurations, BI services, and
resource utilization. New
productivity features include
Distributed Replay and support for
PowerShell 2.0.
Simplify application testing and
minimize errors with application
changes, configuration changes, and
upgrades using new Distributed
Replay.
Streamline virtualization
management with Microsoft System
Center Virtual Machine Manager.
Support for Windows PowerShell 2.0
automates management tasks
across the Microsoft platform while
up-to-date management packs for
System Center enable centralized
monitoring.
Use Data-tier Application (DAC)
support across SQL Server and
Microsoft Visual Studio® to more
easily define and contain the
schemas and objects required to
support an application, then deploy,
import, and export DACs more easily
across on-premises and public
cloud.
Extend any data,
virtually anywhere
Extend the reach of data virtually
anywhere across server and/or
cloud with expansive developer
technologies
Enable new scenarios with SQL
Azure Data Sync, a cloud service
that provides bi-directional data
synchronization between databases
across datacenter and cloud.
Provide a consistent and open data-
feed to power multiple user
experiences across the web, devices
and desktop with OData, an open
protocol built on widely used web
standards.
Manage and extend relational and
non-relational data including XML
data, Windows files, and spatial
information.
Monetize accumulated data through
SQL Azure DataMarket that allows
organizations to publish data for
purchase and consumption by other
entities.
Extend heterogeneous
environments by connecting to SQL
Server and SQL Azure applications
using any industry standard APIs
(ADO.NET, ODBC, JDBC, PDO, and
ADO) across varied platforms
including .NET, C/C++, Java, and
PHP.
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