SQL Server 2008 By Sam Nasr March 25, 2008

Agenda SQL Server 2008 Features Break Business Intelligence(BI) Features Certification Q&A Surveys/Raffle Networking at Winking Lizard (Rockside)

SQL Server 2008 Code name “katmai” Currently in Beta CTP available for free download CTP contains working features end-end RTM in Q3 2008

System Requirements Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Windows Server 2008 Windows Vista Windows XP Service Pack 2 For all download types: 32-bit systems: Intel compatible Pentium III 600 MHz (1 GHz recommended) 64-bit systems: 1 GHz CPU 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended) 675 MB of available hard disk space

What’s New? Platform Features (DBA) T-SQL Features Data Types Reporting Services

Platform Features Transparent Data Encryption External Key Management Data Auditing (change tracking) Hot Add CPU Transparent Failover Policy Implementation Auto Synchronization (conflict detection) Policy: “Declarative Management Framework” (DMF) is now “Policy Based Framework”

T-SQL Features Table Value Parameters FileStream Object Storage Merge Variable initializers Row constructors with >1 row Compound operators (+=) Grouping sets (extension of Group By clause) Intellisense added New Collations CLR UDT 2GB capacity Integrated Full Text Search Sparse Columns (Indexing) No longer limited to 8000 bytes of data, but 2GB in SS2008

T-SQL Data Types Geometery (for planar shapes, i.e. whse layout) Geography (for GPS coordinates) HierarchyID date time datetime2 Datetimeoffset (timezone )

Date/Time Variables SQL Server 2005: SQL Server 2008: Type Accuracy Range Smalldatetime 1 min 1900-1-1 to 2079-6-6 Datetime 3.33 mS 1753-1-1 to 9999-12-31 Type Accuracy Range Date 1 day 1-1-1 to 9999-12-31 time 100 nS 00:00:00 to 23:59.59.9999999 datetime2 1-1-1 00:00:00 to 9999-12-31 23:59.59.9999999 datetimeoffset

Filestream Filestream storage attribute on varbinary(max) column Includes transactional access through Win32 API PathName() Get_Filestream_Transaction_context() OpenSqlFileStream()

Demo Table Value Parameters Grouping Sets HierarchyID New Date/Time variables , & datetimeoffset

Business Intelligence SSRS free with SQL Server 2008 Incorporates Dundas Controls Render to MS-Word Scale out Analysis (read-only) Subspace computations/aggregations New Cube Design Tools Best Practice Design Alerts IIS Agnostic SSRS

CTP Gotchas (installation) Services had to be set to Local System Client tools failed to install initially

CTP Gotchas (RS) Move objects only by dragging the “move” icon “move” icon is not always visible ReportName not populated ReportServer not automatically configured on localhost.

References Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 Web Casts http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/default.aspx SQL Server 2008 Web Casts http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/events-webcasts.aspx Microsoft SQL Server 2008 CTP, February 2008 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=749BD760-F404-4D45-9AC0-D7F1B3ED1053&displaylang=en "First to Know“ SQL Server 2008 Exam Offer http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/sqlvs/offer/default.mspx