1. { Mission-Critical Applications } { Manageability } Mikael Colliander Senior Consultant Microsoft Corporation

2. Managing increasing IT and regulatory requirements Meeting SLAs for system availability Ensuring performance as load increases

3. Dynamic Development Beyond Relational Pervasive Insight Enterprise Data Platform Mobile and Desktop OLAP FILE XML RDBMS Services Query AnalysisReportingIntegrationSynch Search Cloud Server

4. Optimize performance Manage mixed workloads Scale performance Ensure system availability Minimize planned downtime Concurrent data access Secure data access Protect your system Simplify compliance Mission-Critical Applications

5. Highly secure data access Highly secure configuration Rich authentication Granular authorization Help protect your data Transparent data encryption Extensible key management Simplify compliance All actions auditable Enterprise-wide security policies

6. Encrypt data and log files Protect backup files and detached database files Transparent to application No application modifications required to take advantage of encryption Secure with Database Encryption Key (DEK); DEK encrypted with A password Service Master Key Can use a Hardware Security Module (HSM) to store keys Use encrypted data in another server Import DEK to new server Attach encrypted database files Restore an encrypted backup SQL Server 2008 DEK Client Application ata Encrypted Data Page

7. Simplify key management Consolidate and simplify encryption across the enterprise Store keys in removable hardware such as USB drives

8. Create an Audit object Automatically log actions Log To various formats A file, the Windows Application Log, or the Windows Security Log Create an audit specification Include server and database actions in an audit Predefined action groups Individual action filters

9. Simplify Compliance Secure Access Trustworthy Computing Granular Authorization Data Encryption Rich Authentication Auditing Secure Configurations Protect Data Principals and Securables Roles Catalog Security Execution Context User Schema Separation Kerberos/NTLM Password Policy Enforcement End Point Authentication Encrypted Login Credentials Single Sign-On Native Cryptographic Capabilities Transparent Data Encryption Extensible Key Management Enterprise-wide Security Policies Security Updates Surface Area Minimized All Actions Audited Audit Actions to File, Windows Application Log, and Windows Security log Capture and Audit DDL Activities

10. Optimize performance Manage mixed workloads Scale performance Ensure system availability Minimize planned downtime Concurrent data access Secure data access Protect your system Simplify compliance Mission-Critical Applications

11. Help ensure system availability Failover clustering Database mirroring Log shipping Replication Minimize planned downtime Backup compression Dynamically add resources Online operations Enhance concurrent data access Database snapshots Snapshot isolation levels

12. More than 1 drive letter per clustered SQL Server instance (Mount points) Build upon Windows Server 2008 Supports up to 16-node clusters Supports an OR relationship between dependencies Nodes need not be on the same subnet Windows Server 2008 Cluster Validation Tool

13. Performance improvements Log compression Automatic page repair Prevents a corrupt data page from making a database unavailable Mirroring partner detects bad database page Requests valid copy from partner Log Stream compression

14. Principal Witness Data Log Mirror Data Log 1. Bad Page Detected X 2. Request page 3. Find page 4. Retrieve page 5. Transfer page 6. Write Page

15. Backup compression Standard backup commands and interface Off by default, configurable Restore from any SQL Server 2008 Edition Dynamically add resources Online-Add CPU Online-Add memory Backup Compression

16. { Ensure System Availability } Using backup compression Increases database availability by reducing backup time Easy to use and configure Backup compression ratio is easily calculated Can be used for initializing database mirroring and Log Shipping Exploring database mirroring Automatic page repair can prevent damaged pages from making a database unavailable

17. Optimize performance Manage mixed workloads Scale performance Ensure system availability Minimize planned downtime Concurrent data access Secure data access Protect your system Simplify compliance Mission-Critical Applications

18. Optimize performance Data compression Enhanced partitioning DW query optimizations Improved indexed views Performance data collection (covered in manageability session) Manage mixed workloads Resource Governor Scale up/scale out

19. Storage cost savings Shrink large tables such as DW fact tables Improves query performance Results in less I/O but with some CPU cost Higher buffer hit rates Achieves a 2x to 7x compression ratio Row-level, variable-width Page-level dictionary Differential encoding between rows Independent of other features Works for data and indexes

20. Resource Management Allocate resources Assign logins to workloads Map workloads to resources Define limits Prevent run-away queries Conduct online maintenance Prioritize your workloads Define priorities Dynamic re-allocation Backup Admin Tasks Continuous Loading ExecReports Ad-hoc Reports Report Workload OLTP Workload Admin Workload Admin Pool Application Pool Min Memory 10% Max Memory 20% Max CPU 20% Max CPU 90%

21. { Manage Mixed Workloads } Using Resource Governor Configure the Resource Governor by using T-SQL and Management Studio Monitor the Resource Governor by using Management Studio and DMVs Change resource pool limits online and observe the change

22. SQL Server 2008 provides Increased levels of security Availability Scalability to meet your growing data needs

23. { Manageability }

24. Growing product capabilities Increased management complexity Data volumes and users continue to grow Need relevant information for tuning and optimization Data center consolidation and virtualization Increased need for management scalability

25. Manage by policies Monitor with insight Manage across the enterprise Configure Scale Monitor Report Troubleshoot Tune Audit

26. Manageability Multi-server management Visual administration Program tasks Consolidate performance information Report relevant insights Tune with best practices Define configurations Automate compliance Integrate with systems management

27. Manage across enterprise Manage single instance

28. CategoriesCategories TargetsTargets FacetsFacetsConditionsConditionsPoliciesPolicies

29. Reduce my surface area XPCmdShell == False SQLCLR == True DBMail == False RemoteDAC == False Reduce my surface area XPCmdShell == False SQLCLR == True DBMail == False RemoteDAC == False My table names must end with “%_tbl” Only Express and Developer Editions are allowed on developer workstations

30. Manual checking by administrator On Demand SQL Server Agent job checks periodically and logs non-compliance On Schedule, log out-of-compliance DDL trigger rolls back non-compliant changes Changes are attempted, prevent out-of-compliance Event Notification logs non-compliant changes Changes are attempted, log out-of-compliance

31. SQL Server 2008 supports Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Provides enterprise-wide SQL Server backup and restore operations Provides data center redundancy Operations Manager 2007 SQL Server 2008 Management Pack

32. { Manage by Policies } Simplify management with policies Make complex configuration management easier by combining multiple conditions into a single policy Manage Surface Area Configuration by policy, making compliance with security requirements easier to define and enforce Flexibility allows prevention or detection as well as monitoring and logging

33. Manageability Multi-server management Visual administration Program tasks Consolidate performance information Report relevant insights Tune with best practices Define configurations Automate compliance Integrate with systems management

34. Performance data collection OS perf indicators Performance data Extensible collection Central repository Consolidate information Open interface Management reports Canned reports Extensible

35. Data providers SQL Trace Performance Counters Transact-SQL Low overhead data collection Performance data repository Centralized data storage Comprehensive reporting

36. Management Data Warehouse Management Data Warehouse Management Studio Data Collection Management Studio Data Collection Target DataCollectorDataCollector CollectionSetsCollectionSets CollectionSetsCollectionSets Configuration Configuration Collection Set Reports

37. Use standard reports For user databases For data collector Disk usage Query statistics Server activity Build custom reports

38. Performance Reports Database Engine Tuning Advisor SQL Server Profiler Best Practices Policies Best Practices Analyzer

39. { Monitor with Insight } Gain system insight with Performance Data Collection Use built-in reports based on data collection to get insight into performance issues Monitor disk activity, query performance, server activity Performance Data Collection is extensible Build custom data collection sets Policy-based management integrates with Data Collection

40. Manageability Multi-server management Visual administration Program tasks Consolidate performance information Report relevant insights Tune with best practices Define configurations Automate compliance Integrate with systems management

41. Enterprise-wide policies Manage policies centrally Publish to all servers Monitor across multiple servers Multi-server configuration Single configuration server Custom server groups Multi-server queries

42. Centralized management Intellisense for productive management Error List window View dependencies Configuration servers Multi-server queries Replication Monitor

43. SQLCMD Create batch files Automate multiple scripts Server Management Objects (SMO) Create custom.NET management tools Powershell Integrated with Windows management scripting

44. SQL Server 2008 enables you to manage infrastructure effectively by using Policy-based management to implement security and administration best practices Performance insights that let you consolidate monitoring information and effectively tune your systems Multi-server management across the enterprise

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