1. What’s Interesting in SQL Server Denali Ryan Chen Senior Practice Consultant EMC Consulting ryan.chen@emc.com

2. Relational Engine Enhancements

3. T-SQL Enhancements Easier paging No performance advantage compared with CTE, just simpler. Error handling New CATCH statement Sequence Performance is not cleared for this new object. EXEC…WITH RESULT SETS It is just one step closer to meta-data administration. If there is only meaning of field changed, no lucky here.

4. Contained Database New database option – Containment Partially contained database Logins: Database users with password or mapped directly to Windows principal System collation: Temp tables use database’s collation sys.dm_db_uncontained_entities can display potential containment breaches

5. File Table Build on top of SQL Server FILESTREAM technology Support Windows file namespace Compatible with Windows application to files stored in SQL Server

6. AlwaysOn Availability Groups AlwaysOn Availability Groups is a new feature that enhances and combines database mirroring and log shipping capabilities Flexible Efficient Integrated Multi-database failover Multiple secondaries Total of 4 secondaries 2 synchronous secondaries 1 automatic failover pair Synchronous and asynchronous data movement Built in compression and encryption Automatic and manual failover Flexible failover policy Automatic Page Repair Application failover using virtual name Configuration Wizard Dashboard System Center Integration Rich diagnostic infrastructure File-stream replication Replication publisher failover Active Secondary Readable Secondary Backup from Secondary Automation using power-shell

7. Integration Service Enhancements

8. Integration Service and More

9. Designer Improvements Design surface changes Improved annotation (CTP3) Undo / Redo Getting started window Toolbox and variable button New icon Connection Manager connectivity (CTP3) Express task (CTP3) Variable scope change (CTP3) Move variable button (CTP3) Copy and paste Zoom control Auto save and recovery

10. Script Improvements Support VSTA3.0 (Visual Studio 2010 Shell) .Net 4.0 support Visual C# and Visual Basic

11. Data Flow Improvements Flexible order of authoring (FOoA) Edit components while they are disconnected, or in error status Smarter mapping of meta-data Auto-mapping column of name Improved column mapper Data flow grouping Simplified data viewer Source and destination assistant Package format changes DQS cleansing transform (CTP3)

12. Analysis Service Enhancements

13. Analysis Services Architecture SharePoint BI Development Studio Project Juneau Excel Services Internet Explorer Reporting Services xlsx PowerPivot for Excel Analysis Services BI Semantic Model PowerPivot for SharePoint (Analysis Services) Excel xlsx Third Party Apps Personal BI Team BI Organizational BI

14. Third-party applications Reporting Services SharePoint Insights Excel PowerPivot BI Semantic Model Multi- dimensional Data model Tabular Business logic and queries MDX DAX Direct Query Data access ROLAP VertiPaq MOLAP Databases LOB Applications Files OData Feeds Cloud Services BI Semantic Model: Architecture

15. Reporting Service Enhancements

17. Report parts, Report part gallery

18. New Visualizations: Map, gauge, sparkline, databar, KPI

19. Ajax Report viewer

22. Familiar Microsoft Office design patterns

24. Drive greater insight through smart and powerful querying

25. Zero configuration highlighting and filtering

27. Deliver and collaborate through SharePoint

29. Office Open XML Rendering Extensions Support for new file formats introduced in Office 2007 Word rendering to *.docx format Excel rendering to *.xlsx format Feature parity with existing Word and Excel renderers ZIP-compressed files Larger worksheets in Excel 65k -> 1M rows 256 -> 16k columns More colors in Excel 56-color palette -> 24-bit color (16M colors)

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