Microsoft SQL ServerOverview & Resources

November 7, 2011

Mark Ginnebaugh of DesignMind

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

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

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

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft's Flagship Database Product Other Microsoft Database Tools

Access Excel

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)

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

SQL Server Features

Database engine - storage and retrieval of large amounts of data

Reporting Services Analysis Services Integration Services PowerPivot Add-In for Excel

SQL Server Features, cont’d

High Availability Disaster Recovery Master Data Services Application and Multi-Server Management

Editions

Editions, cont’d

Compact - Free embedded database Standalone and Occasionally Connected

Apps Express - Free Web Workgroup Developer

High Availability & Disaster Recovery

Features / Options Database Mirroring Clustering Log Shipping

New in SQL Server 2012 Always On

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

SQL Azure

Cloud-based relational database service Hosted High Availability Scalable Multi-Tenant

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

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

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

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 hourPASS Summit – Premier SQL Server and BI

Conference

SQL Server Specialties

Infrastructure and Security Database Administration Performance Tuning Application Integration and Process

Automation Data Warehousing Reporting and Analytics

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