Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

New Scalability and Performance Features

SQL Server provides some new scalability and performance features including indirect checkpoints and the FORCESCAN table hint.

Indirect checkpoints provide a mechanism for configuring checkpoint intervals at the individual database level. Indirect checkpoints can provide potentially faster, more predictable recovery times for your critical databases than automatic checkpoints. For more information on indirect checkpoints, see Chapter 27, “Transaction Management and the Transaction Log.”

The new FORCESCAN table hint complements the FORCESEEK hint by allowing you to specify that the query optimizer use an index scan operation as the access path to the table or view referenced in the query. For more information ...