Skip to Content
What's New in SQL Server 2012
book

What's New in SQL Server 2012

by Rachel Horder
October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
238 pages
5h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from What's New in SQL Server 2012

Summary

Data quality, more than ever before, is a pressing issue for organizations. With business intelligence and data mining currently featuring so prominently on the corporate decision-support wish list, data quality underpins useful and accurate decisions.

While we have examined a purposely trivial example here, it serves to illustrate just how powerful DQS can be in an environment with tables that have millions of rows of data and hundreds of tables. With the addition of business procedures and naming conventions, a business data expert can examine the data, create rules to flag data that is invalid, and extract data that is to be changed in order to standardize it across the system.

Once corrections have been identified, the changes to the ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
A Developer’s Guide to SQL Server 2005

A Developer’s Guide to SQL Server 2005

Bob Beauchemin, Dan Sullivan
Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices

Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices

Bradley Ball, TJay Belt, Glenn Berry, Jes Borland, Carlos Bossy, Louis Davidson, Ben DeBow, Grant Fritchey, Jonathan Gardner, Jesper Johansen, Jeremy Lowell, Wendy Pastrick, Kellyn Pot'vin, Mladen Prajdić, Herve Roggero, Chris Shaw, Gail Shaw, Jason Strate

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781849687348Other