what is sql server 2012?
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This presentation is part of LearnItFirst's SQL Server 2012: A Comprehensive Introduction course. The video that contains this presentation can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m95ie9Na-o In this slideshow, instructor Scott Whigham explains what SQL Server 2012 actually is, and the different components of SQL Server and how they interact with one another. You will get a grasp of what each component is used for and the new features of SQL Server 2012. Highlights in this slideshow: - What is SQL Server 2012? - The components of SQL Server - How the different products interact - Changes in SQL Server 2012 - What is Reporting Services (SSRS)? - What is Integration Services (SSIS)? - What is Anaylsis Services (SSAS)? - What is the Database Engine?TRANSCRIPT
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Chapter: Why SQL Server 2012?Course: SQL Server 2012 - A Comprehensive IntroductionCourse ID: 170Instructor: Scott Whigham
Chapter 02: Video # 1
What Is SQL Server 2012?
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Chapter Listing:1. Course Introduction
2. Why SQL Server 2012?
3. Installing, Configuring, and Upgrading to SQL Server 2012
4. Creating & Managing Databases
5. Server Security
6. Backup and Restore
7. High Availability/Disaster Recovery
8. Jobs & Automating Maintenance
9. Creating Tables and Constraints
10. Writing Queries and Manipulating Data
11. Views, Indexes, and Query Plans
12. Stored Procedures, Triggers, & UDFs
13. Database Security
14. Business Intelligence in 2012
15. Analysis Services 2012
16. Integration Services 2012
17. Reporting Services 2012
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Chapter 02: Why SQL Server 2012?Cha
pter 02
• What Is SQL Server 2012?
• Types of Database Management Systems
• The Languages of SQL Server 2012
• What’s New in the SQL Server 2012 Database Engine?
• What’s New in SSIS 2012?
• What’s New in SSRS 2012?
• What’s New in SSAS 2012?
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SQL Server 2012:– SQL Server version 11.0– Evolutionary for most areas
• User‐defined server roles, sequence objects, etc
– Revolutionary in some areas• ColumnStore indexes, AlwaysOn, etc.
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You can skip ahead to video #007 if:
– You know what SQL Server is– You know the languages of SQL Server
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What is SQL Server? – Hard question to answer!– SQL Server is both:
• A suite of software• A product name
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SQL Server 2012:
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SQL Server 2012:
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The term SQL Server 2012 is confusing
– Microsoft’s marketing department wants you to think of the entire suite
– Colloquially, most people just mean the Database Engine
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Database Engine and SSAS store and manage data
– They are DBMS’• DataBaseManagement Systems
– D.E. is a relational DBMS– SSAS is a multidimensional DBMS– (more on these terms later)
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Reporting Services and Integration Services are not DBMS’
– SSIS is an ETL tool• Extract, Transform, and Load
– SSRS is only about reporting• It uses the DE behind the scenes for data storage
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The interplay between the products:
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“Scott! What’s the difference between the DE and SSAS though?”
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In the next video…– Types of Database Management Systems
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