Presentation from November 2011 BizSparkSF Meetup entitled "Tools, Tools and More Tools!" http://www.bizsparksf.com/events/34653282/

1. Microsoft SQL Server
Overview & Resources
November 7, 2011
Mark Ginnebaugh of DesignMind

2. Mark Ginnebaugh
 Microsoft SQL Server MVP
 Director of Global Chapters for PASS
 PASS = Professional Association for SQL Server
 Leader of three PASS Chapters in San
Francisco and Mountain View
 Two groups devoted to SQL Server
 One focused on Business Intelligence

3. Mark Ginnebaugh, cont’d
 President of DesignMind
 Based in San Francisco
 SQL Server, SharePoint, .NET, Business
Intelligence
 Clients: Autodesk, Intuit, One Legal, Annie’s
Foods, XOJet, EBMUD, E-Fuel, several start-ups
 mark@designmind.com
 @markginnebaugh
 www.designmind.com/blog

4. Why Do You Need a Database?
 Store your company's data
 Persist data for internal applications and
websites
 Analyze your data and your business
 Provide data or services to your customers

5. Microsoft SQL Server
 Microsoft's Flagship Database Product
 Other Microsoft Database Tools
 Access
 Excel

6. Competing Products
 Oracle and IBM DB2
 Expensive, Highly Scalable
 Many existing enterprises have legacy Oracle
and/or DB2 data
 MySQL
 Part of the “LAMP Stack”
 Good open source database
 Less Management Capabilities – Increasing
overhead
 Free (as is SQL Server Express Edition)

7. Why SQL Server?
 Broad range of features
 Balance of price and performance
 Highly Scalable - very few applications require
something larger and more expensive
 Different deployment options, including the
cloud
 Additional features coming in 2012

8. SQL Server Features
 Database engine - storage and retrieval of large
amounts of data
 Reporting Services
 Analysis Services
 Integration Services
 PowerPivot Add-In for Excel

9. SQL Server Features, cont’d
 High Availability
 Disaster Recovery
 Master Data Services
 Application and Multi-Server Management

10. Editions

11. Editions, cont’d
 Compact - Free embedded database
 Standalone and Occasionally Connected Apps
 Express - Free
 Web
 Workgroup
 Developer

12. High Availability & Disaster
Recovery
 Features / Options
 Database Mirroring
 Clustering
 Log Shipping
 New in SQL Server 2012
 Always On

13. Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW)
 Data Warehouse Appliance
 Hardware Choices include HP, Dell, Bull, IBM, EMC
 Massively Parallel Architecture
 High Performance at Low Cost
 Supports 10 TB, 100 TB, 1+ PetaByte

14. SQL Azure
 Cloud-based relational database service
 Hosted High Availability
 Scalable
 Multi-Tenant

15. Coming Soon – SQL Server 2012!
 Code Named "Denali"
 Release during first half of 2012
 New Features in SQL Server 2012
 Hadoop Connector - Hello Big Data!
 Power View (AKA Crescent) - Data Visualization Tool
 Always On Multi-Site Clustering
 High Availability and Disaster Recovery Improvements
 New SQL Server Development Tools
 Column-Based Query Accelerator

16. Local User Groups
 The following meetings are free, with food and
networking at 6:30 and the meeting from 7:00-8:30 p.m.
 San Francisco SQL Server User Group
 2nd Wednesday of each month
 835 Market Street, 7th Floor, San Francisco
 www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-SQL-Server-Meetup-
Group/
 Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group
 3rd Tuesday of each month
 www.meetup.com/The-SiliconValley-SQL-Server-User-Group/
 Bay Area Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group
 1st Thursday of each month
 www.bayareamicrosoftbi.org

17. SQL Saturday Silicon Valley
 SQL Server 2012 Launch Event – Plenty of Denali Content
 March 3rd, 2012
 Microsoft Technology Center, Mountain View
 Expecting 500 Attendees – Register Soon
 3-4 Tracks
 Top SQL Server Experts

18. Professional Association for SQL
Server
 Outstanding International SQL Server Community
 www.sqlpass.org
 80,000 Members
 250 Local Chapters (3 in Bay Area)
 8 Virtual Chapters
 Database Administration
 Business Intelligence
 Women in Technology
24 Hours of PASS – one virtual session per hour
PASS Summit – Premier SQL Server and BI
Conference

19. SQL Server Specialties
 Infrastructure and Security
 Database Administration
 Performance Tuning
 Application Integration and Process Automation
 Data Warehousing
 Reporting and Analytics

20. Additional Resources
 Microsoft Books Online: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/ms130214.aspx
 SQLServerPedia: www.SQLServerPedia.com
 SQL Server Worldwide User Group: www.SSWUG.com
 TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/sqlserver/ff398089
 Contact Mark Ginnebaugh
 mark@designmind.com
 www.designmind.com