Speaker: Pieter Vanhove Download SQL Server 2012: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/get-sql-server/try-it.aspx

1. 12 HOURS OF SQL 2012
Manageability Enhancements
Pieter Vanhove

2. WHO AM I
• Pieter Vanhove
• SQL Server Database Consultant at Kohera
• MCTS, MCITP Database Administrator 2008
• Love to work with SQL HA/DR solutions
• E-mail: pieter.vanhove@kohera.be
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/Pieter_Vanhove
• Blog: http://blogs.sqlug.be/pieter/
• MEET: http://technet.microsoft.com/nl-be/hh442430#pietervanhove

3. AGENDA
• New features in SQL Server (Management Studio)
• Breakpoints
• Intellisence
• New Restore options
• (Contained Databases)
• (New DMV’s)

4. NEW FEATURES IN SQL SERVER MANAGEMENT STUDIO
• New server Properties
• Changes in the Object Explorer
• New features on Database tasks
• Deploy Database to SQL Azure
• Zoom option in Query Window
• Outlining
• Microsoft Help Viewer

5. NEW FEATURES IN SQL SERVER (MANAGEMENT STUDIO)
• You can store files and documents in special tables but access them from
Windows applications as if they were stored in the file system, without
making any changes to your client applications.
• The FileTable feature builds on top of
SQL Server FILESTREAM technology

6. NEW FEATURES IN SQL SERVER (MANAGEMENT STUDIO)
• Sequences
• Object that generates a sequence of numeric values
according to the specification with which the
sequence was created.
• Ascending or descending order at a defined
interval and may cycle (repeat) as requested.
– Not associated with tables. An application refers to a sequence object
to receive its next value.
– The relationship between sequences and tables is controlled by the
application.

7. NEW FEATURES IN SQL SERVER (MANAGEMENT STUDIO)
• Extended Events
Allows users to collect as much or as little
information as is necessary to
troubleshoot or identify a performance
problem.

8. TRANSACT-SQL DEBUGGER
• Transact-SQL breakpoints now support:
• Breakpoint condition
• Breakpoint hit count
• Breakpoint filter
• Breakpoint action

9. TRANSACT-SQL INTELLISENCE
• Transact-SQL code snippets
• Transact-SQL Surround with snippets

10. RESTORE ENHANCEMENTS
• Point-in-time restore improved by a visual timeline
• Page Restore

11. CONTAINED DATABASES
• Moving databases is simplified by introducing
contained databases.
• Users in a contained database are no longer
associated with logins
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0 (RC
0) introduces partially contained databases (also
known as Partial-CDB).
• Partially Contained Databases provide some
isolation from the instance of SQL Server but do not
yet provide full containment.

12. PARTIALLY CONTAINED DATABASE TERMS
• Non-contained database
• A database with containment set to NONE
• Fully contained database
• A fully contained database does not allow any objects that cross the application
boundary
• Partially contained database
• Is a contained database that allows features that cross the application
boundary. SQL Serer is able to determine when the containment boundary is
crossed

13. PARTIALLY CONTAINED DATABASE
• Users with passwords are authenticated by the
database
• User information is stored in user database and
not in master database.
• Very Secure - user can only perform DDL
operations inside the database.

14. BENEFITS OF PARTIALLY CONTAINED DATABASES
• Main advantages
• Simplify DB deployment for applications
• Increase manageability of DB access
• Eg.: Feature is used in AlwaysOn

15. NEW DMV’S
• sys.dm_exec_query_stats
• sys.dm_os_volume_stats
• sys.dm_os_windows_info
• sys.dm_server_memory_dumps
• sys.dm_server_services
• sys.dm_server_registry

16. QUESTIONS

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