1. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com DBA Delta Force SQL Server 2012 features for the DBA

2. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com Agenda About me Discontinued and Deprecated features in SQL Server 2012 New features to be aware of ColumnStore Indexes Thanks

3. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com Gareth Swanepoel From South Africa, originally Been in IT for 20+ years Was first a sysadmin, then a DBA DBA Consultant with Pragmatic Works Currently authoring 3 chapters in the upcoming SQL Server 2012 Pro Admin book eMail : GarethS@pragmaticworks.comGarethS@pragmaticworks.com Twitter : @GarethSwan Website : www.MyGareth.comwww.MyGareth.com

4. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com Discontinued & Deprecated features

5. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com Discontinued features BACKUP DATABASE WITH [MEDIA]PASSWORD Compatibility version 80 (SQL 2000) VIA connection protocol SQL Mail, Net Send & pager notifications All 32-bit support (AWE, etc.) SQL Server Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO) Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/ms144262(v=SQL.110).aspxhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/ms144262(v=SQL.110).aspx Features not available in SQL Server 2012

6. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com Deprecated features Compatibility version 90 (SQL 2005) Remote servers Ability to return result sets from triggers BACKUP {DATABASE | LOG} TO TAPE SQL Server Profiler Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/ms143729(v=sql.110).aspxhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/ms143729(v=sql.110).aspx Features not available in the next and future versions of SQL Server

7. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com New & improved features Extended Events – New Session Wizard & Session UI Contained database authentication Custom (user-defined) database roles Auditing enhancements AlwaysOn FileTable and Full-text Semantic Search T-SQL enhancements Features that DBA's care about that will kick butt in SQL Server 2012

8. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com ColumnStore Indexes ColumnStore Indexes – the basics The Fangorn Forest: Home of the Ents ProductIDOrderDateCost 310200107012171.29 311200107011912.15 312200107022171.29 31320010702413.14 data page 1000 Row Store (Heap / B-Tree) ProductID 310 311 312 313 data page 2010 OrderDate 20010701 20010702 data page 2000 data page 2040 Cost 2171.29 1912.15 2171.29 413.14 Column Store (values compressed)

9. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com ColumnStore Indexes Key Characteristics of CSI's Columnar data format Faster query results Query processing Table cannot be updated The Fangorn Forest: Home of the Ents

10. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com ColumnStore Indexes DEMO The Fangorn Forest: Home of the Ents

11. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com ColumnStore Indexes Best Practices Choosing Columns DO … put CSI's on large tables only DO … structure queries as star-joins DON'T … use OUTER JOIN DON'T … use UNION ALL DON'T … use string filters, etc DON'T … use NOT IN ( ) The Fangorn Forest: Home of the Ents

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