What’s New in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for Administrators & Developers Bryan Smith

AlwaysOn Reliable Secondaries FileTable ColumnStore Index 15k Partitions SQL Server Data Tools Power View BI Semantic Model Data Quality Services Full-Text Search Performance Distributed Replay Reporting Alerts ODBC Driver for Linux Statistical Semantic Search Windows Server Core Support Multiple Secondaries Availability Groups Default Scheme for Windows Groups T-SQL Enhancements Full Globe Spatial SSMS to Windows Azure Platform PowerPivot Enhancements Master Data Management Excel Add-in PowerShell 2.0 Support PHP & Java Connectivity SQL Audit for All Editions CDC Support for SSIS New SSIS Design Surface Online Operation Enhancements Multi-site Clustering Unstructured Data Performance Resource Governor Enhancements Database Recovery Advisor HA for StreamInsight Flexible Failover Policy Extended Events Enhancements Contained Database Authentication SharePoint Active Directory Support SQL Server Express LocalDB User-defined Audit Audit Filtering Audit Resilience FTS Support for Czech and Greek AlwaysOn Connection Director Ad Hoc Reporting SSIS Troubleshooting SSIS Package Management T-SQL Debugger Enhancements Spatial 2D Support Unstructured Data Performance

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AlwaysOn: Objectives Increased availability Improved hardware utilization Simplified administration

AlwaysOn: Availability Instance AvailabilityDatabase Availability

AlwaysOn: Instance Availability Enhances Windows Failover Clustering with: – Enhanced diagnostics – Flexible failover policies – Easier multi-site clustering

AlwaysOn: Health & Diagnostics Five Resource Types: System Resources Query Processing IO Subsystem Events

AlwaysOn: Failover Policies Condition Policy Number Windows Service Down Cannot Obtain Health System Reports Error Resource Reports Error Query Processing Reports Error

AlwaysOn: Multi-Site Clustering Multi-site clustering supported since 2005 – VLAN required between sites – Storage-level replication separate from SQL Server Multi-subnet support with 2012 – Storage-level replication still separate from SQL Server DNS Site ASite B

AlwaysOn: Database Availability Enhances database mirroring with: – Multiple Secondaries – Availability Groups – Virtual Network Name – Readable Secondaries

AlwaysOn: Availability Groups Multiple user databases in replicated set Failover together within topology

AlwaysOn: Secondaries 1 primary + up to 4 secondaries – 2 max synchronous secondaries Provide failover & automatic page correction 1 secondary in automatic failover pair

AlwaysOn: Secondaries

AlwaysOn: Automated Failover Condition Policy Number Windows Service Down OR AG Lease Expired Replica in Failed State System Reports Error Resource Reports Error Query Processing Report Error

AlwaysOn: Virtual Network Name Virtual Network Name (VNN) established with Windows Failover Cluster Services (WFCS) Availability Group Listener interacts with WFCS to identify primary Availability Group Applications connect to VNN or individual server names Virtual Network Name

AlwaysOn: Readability All secondaries support backups 2 secondaries can be designated readable Availability Group Listener can route read-only workloads to readable secondaries – Routing list prioritizes secondaries – Application must specify ReadOnly intent Virtual Network Name

AlwaysOn: Administration

Windows Core Server Support Supports: – Database Engine – Analysis Services – Integration Services

Security: Contained Databases Instance User Login Instance User/Login Useful in scenarios when need to move a database: AlwaysOn Application Development Azure

Security: Contained Databases Supports Windows & SQL authentication – Windows-only recommended for authentication security & DoS concerns Must be enabled at instance-level and implemented for specific databases Access to instance-level resources permitted – Database becomes partially contained – Partial containment monitored through sys.dm_db_uncontained_entities & cdb_uncontained_usage event

Security: Contained Databases Increased potential attack surface – db_owner, db_securityadmin, or users with ALTER ANY USER permissions can grant access without knowledge of instance admins Drives security administration to multiple levels – DB-level logins can access other databases through guest or corresponding logins or user-accounts

Security BUILTIN\Admins & LocalSystem Managed service accounts & virtual accounts Custom server roles

Security: Audit Improvements Server-level audit available in every edition – Database-level audit in Enterprise & Developer only Fail operation options for log failures More information in audit logs Audits can be defined with filters sp_audit_write proc for custom audit

Resource Governor Enhancements Support for 64 resource pools Hard caps for CPU usage – CPU does not wait for contention Resource pools can be assigned affinity for specific schedulers or NUMA nodes

Performance Improvements Full-text search – Fully integrated with database engine – Improved query optimization & parallelism – Versioning to improve concurrent reads & writes Spatial indexes – Numerous improvements to indexes – Helper procs for easier index tuning – Support for row and page-level compression – Query plan optimizations

Performance Improvements Expanded online operations – Add a non-nullable column with a default – Index rebuilds support BLOBs Support for 15k partitions – Back ported to SQL Server 2008 & 2008 R2 Columnstore indexes!

Header Offset Array Columnar Storage

Columnstore Index Execution Plan With Columnstore Index Without Columnstore Index

Columnstore Index Scan Scans required index columns Optimized for batch retrieval – Retrieves ~1,000 rows per batch – Batches proceed to subsequent filtering

Batch Hash Table Build & Hash Match Multiple filtering values organized as hash table Hash table applied to index scan batches &

Memory Consumption With Columnstore Index Without Columnstore Index

New T-SQL Functions String Conversion Date & Time Logical Analytical

String Conversion Functions PARSE FORMAT CONCAT TRY_CONVERT TRY_PARSE

Date & Time Functions DATEFROMPARTS DATETIME2FROMPARTS DATETIMEFROMPARTS DATETIMEOFFSETFROMPARTS SMALLDATETIMEFROMPARTS TIMEFROMPARTS EOMONTH

Logical Functions CHOOSE IIF

Analytical Functions CUME_DIST PERCENT_RANK PERCENTILE_CONT PERCENTILE_DISC FIRST_VALUE LAST_VALUE LEAD LAG

Programmability Enhancements Pagination in ORDER BY clause

Programmability Enhancements Windowed operations in OVER clause – Enable moving averages, running totals, etc.

Programmability Enhancements THROW statement FORCESEEK & FORCESCAN table hints – Back ported to SQL Server 2008 R2

Sequence Objects Defined using: – TinyInt: 0 to 255 – SmallInt: -32,768 to 32,767 – Int: -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647 – BigInt: -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 – Decimal: - 99,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 to 99,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 using decimal(38,0) Bound by start, increment, min & max values Cycle options for when range is exceeded Created outside scope of current transaction – Values consumed upon request Caching available for performance – Cache lost with system failure – Default cache of 50 Retrieved using NEXT VALUE FOR or sp_sequence_get_range

FileTable Objects

Semantic Search

SQL Server Data Tools

Data Providers Non-WindowsWindows/Windows Azure.NET (ADO.NET) Native (ODBC) PHP (SQLPHP) Java (JDBC) Native (ODBC)

Distributed Replay Utility Employs standard replay trace from Up to 16 replay clients + 1 controller Executes in synchronization or stress mode

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MSFT CEP Engine Reference data Application Event Sources Devices, Sensors Event stores & Databases Stock tickers & News feeds Event Targets Pagers & Monitoring devices KPI Dashboards, SharePoint UI Trading stations Output Adapters Input Adapters Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for embedded systems

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Enterprise Information Management MARKETPLACE External Data and Services RELATIONAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL CollaborationMobile DECISIONS & ACTION Workflow INSIGHT Social OPERATIONAL AD-HOC MODELING PREDICTIVE EXPLORATION SHARING NON RELATIONAL STREAMING DATA MANAGEMENT SUBSTRATE FEDERATED STORAGE & QUERY Real-time Embedded SHARE DISCOVER TRANSFORM RECOMMEND CLEAN GOVERN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

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Integration Services

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