Chapter 1
SQL Server 2012 Architecture
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER
- New Important Features in SQL Server 2012
- How New Features Relate to Data Professionals Based on Their Role
- SQL Server Architecture Overview
- Editions of SQL Server and How They Affect the Data Professional
SQL Server 2012 offers a fresh look at how organizations and their developers, information workers, and executives use and integrate data. A tremendous number of new features and improvements focus on extending SQL Server more into SharePoint, improving self-service options, and increasing data visualization, development, monitoring and exploration capabilities. This chapter is not a deep dive into the architecture but provides enough information to give you an understanding of how SQL Server operates.
SQL SERVER 2012 ECOSYSTEM
This thing called SQL Server has become quite large over the past few releases. This first section provides a review of the overall SQL Server ecosystem, which is now referred to as less of a product and more of an ecosystem, because there are so many interactions with other products and features that drive increased performance, scale, and usability. Following are three major areas of focus for the release of SQL Server 2012:
- Performance: Features such as improved core support, columnstore indexes, compression enhancements, and Always On make this the most powerful, available release of SQL Server.
- Self Service: With new data exploration tools such as Power View, improvements in SQL Azure ...
