WHAT’S INTERESTING IN SQL SERVER DENALIRyan Chen

Senior Practice Consultant

EMC Consulting

ryan.chen@emc.com

RELATIONAL ENGINE ENHANCEMENTS

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.

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

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

SQL Server

AlwaysOn Availability GroupsAlwaysOn Availability Groups is a new feature that enhances and combines database mirroring and log shipping capabilities

Multi-database failover

Multiple secondaries

Total of 4 secondaries2 synchronous secondaries1 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

Flexible Integrated Efficient

Active Secondary

Readable SecondaryBackup from SecondaryAutomation using power-shell

INTEGRATION SERVICE ENHANCEMENTS

Integration Service and More

Integration Services• Integrate

Data Quality Services• Cleanse

Master Data Services• Manage

Impact Analysis and Lineage• Assess

EIM

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

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

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)

ANALYSIS SERVICE ENHANCEMENTS

Analysis Services Architecture

Excel Services

PowerPivot for SharePoint(Analysis Services)Excel

Internet Explorer

Analysis Services

BI Semantic Model

SharePoint

Reporting Services

Third Party Apps

PowerPivot for

Excel

xlsx

xlsx

BI Development StudioProject Juneau

Personal BI Team BI Organizational BI

BI Semantic Model

Data model

Business logic and queries

Data access ROLAP MOLAP VertiPaqDirectQuery

MDX DAX

Multi-dimensional

Tabular

Third-partyapplications

ReportingServices Excel PowerPivot

Databases LOB Applications Files OData Feeds Cloud Services

SharePointInsights

BI Semantic Model: Architecture

REPORTING SERVICE ENHANCEMENTS

Recap: What do we have in 2008 R2?

• We see lot of new in corporate BIShared DataSetsReport parts, Report part galleryNew Visualizations: Map, gauge, sparkline,

databar, KPIAjax Report viewerTons of Customer DCRs

• But Microsoft also cut:Adhoc reportingAlerting

Highly Visual Design Experience

Presentation-ready at all times

Rich metadata-driven interactivity

Project “Crescent”

• Interactive Presentation turns pervasive information into persuasive information

• Deliver and collaborate through SharePoint• Full screen presentation mode for interactive boardroom session

• Fully integrated with PowerPivot• Drive greater insight through smart and powerful querying• Zero configuration highlighting and filtering• Animated trending and comparisons

• Interactive, web-based authoring and sharing of information• Familiar Microsoft Office design patterns• Powerful data layout with banding, callout and small multiples

visualizations

Self-service Alerting

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)

For more• My blog

http://drillchina.wordpress.com• SQL Server Denali Official Page

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/product-info/future-editions.aspx

• Our UG event