1. SharePoint 2013 & SQL Server 2012 A talk about what SQL Server version you want to use from a SharePoint 2013 perspective

3. Introduction

4. Our talk of today…

5. What version of SQL Server?

9. Agenda The agenda of the presentation

10. Agenda

11. The choices you have What are the requirements for SharePoint 2013?

12. The choices you have SQL Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2012 and higher Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 All 64 bit SQL Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2012 and higher Microsoft SQL Server 2012 All 64 bit

13. Dependencies What has influence on the choice between the two SQL Server versions?

14. Influencers Developers Business IT Department

15. Levels of dependencies

16. Infrastructure

17. Functional requirements

18. Knowledge level

19. Costs

20. And then?

21. Software level The advantages of SQL Server 2012 at software level

22. Advantages - Software

23. Advantages – Mixed Licenses

24. Infrastructure level The advantages of SQL Server 2012 at infrastructure level

25. Availability Application Level Database Level Mirroring Log shipping AlwaysOn Availability Groups Instance Level Clustering AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances Machine Level Advantages – (High) Availability

26. AlwaysOn

27. AlwaysOn Availability Groups

29. AlwaysOn SQL Failover Cluster Instances

30. “High Availability” in comparison High Availability and Disaster Recovery SQL Server Solution Potential Data Loss (RPO) Potential Recovery Time (RTO) Automatic Failover Readable Secondaries (1) AlwaysOn Availability Group - synchronous-commit ZeroSecondsYes (4) 0 - 2 AlwaysOn Availability Group - asynchronous-commit SecondsMinutesNo0 - 4 AlwaysOn Failover Cluster InstanceNA (5) Seconds -to-minutes YesNA Database Mirroring (2) - High-safety (sync + witness) ZeroSecondsYesNA Database Mirroring (2) - High-performance (async) Seconds (6) Minutes (6) NoNA Log ShippingMinutes (6) Minutes -to-hours (6) No Not during a restore Backup, Copy, Restore (3) Hours (6) Hours -to-days (6) NoNot during a restore Source: Whitepaper “Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Solutions Guide for High Availability and Disaster Recovery”

31. Advantages – Cross-Cluster Migration

32. Advantages – Windows Azure Blob Storage

34. Advantages – BLOB storage

35. Functional level The advantages of SQL Server 2012 at functional level

36. Advantages – Report Server

37. Advantages – Power Pivot

39. Advantages – Power View

41. Wrap up

43. THANK YOU