Introduction to SQL Server

2008

Why SQL Server

SQL Server 2008 is the Data Platform leader
Microsoft is positioned in Leaders Quadrant for
Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008.
Microsoft is positioned in Leaders Quadrant for
Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database
Management Systems, 2007
SQL Server is the fastest growing Database and
Business Intelligence vendor
SQL Server ships more units than Oracle and IBM
combined.

SQL Server is the #1 OLAP Server on the market.

SQL Server is more secure than Oracle. Since July
2003 more than 100 critical Oracle database
security vulnerabilities have been identified,
compared to ZERO for SQL Server for that period.
SQL Server is best in price/performance for TPC-H
1TB & 3TB (non-clustered).
Microsoft SQL Server and Unisys are the first to
publish TPC-E benchmark results.
Gartner 2006 worldwide RDBMS market share
reports highest growth rate in market share for
Microsoft SQL Server. With 28% growth in market
share, growth is almost twice the nearest
competitor at 14.8% growth.

History
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Microsoft
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SQL Server Architecture

Compelling Technologies for

CS
Standard compliant SQL
language

SQL Management Studio

Profiling
Query plan visualization

Visual Studio

T-SQL & SQL/CLR debugging in

Visual Studio

Extensibility Mechanisms

CLR Integration
Types, Functions, Aggregates,
etc

Other Interesting Tools

Best Practices Analyzer

Database Tuning Advisor
Operational Reports in
Management Studio

DBMS internals
Dynamic Management
Views (sys.dm_*)
Concurrency Visibility
(Blocking Trees, Deadlock
Visualization in Profiler)
Missing index analysis
(sys.dm_db_missing_index
_*)
Highly conducive to
research/experimentation
with self-management
automation
Advanced Topics
Using clustering or
multiple instances for High
Availability

SQL Server and its offering for Microsofts

Business Intelligence Suite
DELIVERY

END USER TOOLS AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS

BI PLATFORM (RDBMS, ETL, OLAP, Reporting)

Mainframe/
Department
al Systems

7/16

The SQL Server Platform tools

Integrate

Store

Analyze

Report

8/16

How do they work together?

Integrate

Data acquisition from

source systems and
integration
Data transformation
and synthesis

Analyze

Data enrichment,
with business
logic, hierarchical
views
Data discovery via
data mining

Report

Data presentation
and distribution
Data access for
the masses

9/16

Sql server 2008 Whats

new?
Code name Katmai
Whats new?

Platform Features (DBA)

T-SQL Features
Data Types
Reporting Services

Platform features
Transparent Data Encryption
External Key Management
Data Auditing (change tracking)
Hot Add CPU
Transparent Failover
Policy Implementation
Auto Synchronization (conflict
detection)

T-SQL features
Table Value Parameters
FileStream Object Storage
Merge
Variable initializers
Row constructors with >1 row
Compound operators (+=)
Grouping sets (extension of Group By clause)
Intellisense added
New Collations
CLR UDT 2GB capacity
Integrated Full Text Search
Sparse Columns (Indexing)

T-SQL Data types

Geometery (for planar shapes, i.e.
whse layout)
Geography (for GPS coordinates)
HierarchyID
date
time
datetime2
Datetimeoffset (timezone )

Date/Time Variables
SQL Server 2005

SQL Server 2008

FileStream
Filestream storage attribute on
varbinary(max) column
Includes transactional access through
Win32 API
PathName()
Get_Filestream_Transaction_context()
OpenSqlFileStream()

Can I get SQL Server for

trying out? & is it free?
http://www.microsoft.com/express/sql/
download/default.aspx
you can get it here!
Yes it is free!!!
Apart from SQL Server loads of other
editions are available for free
downloads at
http://www.microsoft.com/express/prod

Resources
Build your data warehouse faster
Learn for free, SQL Server BI technologies
Develop ETL packages with SQL Server Integration Services
Project REAL Business Intelligence in Practice
Data Warehousing Webcasts presented by Kimball Group

Manage your data warehouse

Strategies for Partitioning Relational Data Warehouses in Microsoft SQL Se
rver
Managing Aggregations with SQL Server 2005 Indexed Views
Scale Out using SQL Server 2005 for DW Workloads
Microsoft Data Warehouse

BI technologies
Microsoft BI
SQL Server Reporting Services
SQL Server Analysis Services

Database Development
Database development using Sql Server 2008

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