Graeme Scott – Technology Solution Professional Reduce Infrastructure Costs & Increase Productivity with SQL Server 2008

SQL Server 2008: High-value Enterprise Data Platform

Data Compression SQL Server: Reduce Infrastructure Costs Reduce disk storage requirements for SQL databases. Improve performance, I/O throughput and memory usage. Backup Compression Reduce the size of backup files.

SQL Virtualization n SQL Server: Reduce Infrastructure Costs

SQL Server: Increase DBA Productivity Policy Based Management Resource Governor Performance Data Collection

Use Policies for Management Tasks Define policies centrally Automate policy enforcement across the enterprise

SQL Server: Increase DBA Productivity Policy Based Management Resource Governor Performance Data Collection

Resource Management with Resource Governor: Resource pool: A virtual subset of physical database engine resources Provides controls to specify Min Memory % Max Memory % Min CPU % Max CPU % Max DOP Resource monitoring Up to 20 resource pools SQL Server Max CPU 20% Max Memory 40% Max CPU 20% Max Memory 40% Admin Workload Backup Admin Tasks OLTP Workload OLTP Activity Max CPU 80% Max Memory 60% Max CPU 80% Max Memory 60% Application Pool Admin Pool Ad-hoc Reports Executive Reports Med High Report Workload

SQL Server: Increase DBA Productivity Policy Based Management Resource Governor Performance Data Collection

SQL Server: Increase Developer Productivity Enhance developer productivity: Extensive.Net Framework-based application interfaces. Entity Framework, Synchronization Framework & ADO.Net Data Services. Single consistent query language crossing multiple data sources and data formats. Use policies to apply development standards. Support for a wide range of data types XML, hierarchical & spatial. “The mash-up of maps and data that displays the plant locations in Microsoft Virtual Earth was ready in three days at a cost of five developer days in total. The entire application, including comments, is less than 300 lines of code.” – MARK WHITEHORN, Research Associate, University of Cambridge.

Resources Twelve ways to reduce costs with SQL Server Learn about SQL Server 2008 R2. Total economic impact of SQL Server 2008 upgrade. Lower costs with the SQL Server value tool. server-2008.aspx

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