Introduction to SQL Server 2012
Installation/Upgrade SQL Server 2012
Manageability Enhancements
- SSMS
- Data Tools
- PowerShell
- DataTier Applications
- DTA
- New DMV's, DMF's
High Availability and Disaster Recovery Enhancements
- AlwasOn (AlwaysOn Availability Groups, Active Secondaries, AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances)
- Deploying SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server Core
- Database Recovery Advisor
- Online Operations (LOB Online Index Rebuilds, Adding Online Non-NULL Values)
- Rolling Upgrade and Patch Management
Scalability and Performance Enhancements
- Columnstore Index
- Online Index Creation, Rebuild, and Drop of varchar (max), nvarchar(max) and varbinary(max)
- Partition Support Increased
Security Enhancements
- User defined Server-Roles
- Audit Enhancements (Audit Supported on all SKUs, Improved Resilience, User-Defined Audit Event, Record Filtering, T-SQL Stack Information)
- Database Authentication Enhancements (Enabling Contained Databases, Creating Users, Contained Database Authentication Security Concerns, Default Schema for groups)
- Additional Security Enhancements (.Cryptography Changes, SharePoint Active Directory, Provisioning Enhancements, New Permissions)
Programmability Enhancements
- FileTables
- Semantic Search
- OFFSET & FETCH
- Sequence Numbers
- SQL Express-LocalDB
- OVER CLAUSE
- Extended Events enhancements
Data Quality Services
Master Data Services
Neuerungen Integration Services