This presentation is part of LearnItFirst's SQL Server 2012: A Comprehensive Introduction course. The video that contains this presentation can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m95ie9Na-o In this slideshow, instructor Scott Whigham explains what SQL Server 2012 actually is, and the different components of SQL Server and how they interact with one another. You will get a grasp of what each component is used for and the new features of SQL Server 2012. Highlights in this slideshow: - What is SQL Server 2012? - The components of SQL Server - How the different products interact - Changes in SQL Server 2012 - What is Reporting Services (SSRS)? - What is Integration Services (SSIS)? - What is Anaylsis Services (SSAS)? - What is the Database Engine?

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Chapter: Why SQL Server 2012?
Course: SQL Server 2012 - A Comprehensive Introduction
Course ID: 170
Instructor: Scott Whigham
Chapter 02: Video # 1
What Is SQL
Server 2012?

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Chapter Listing:
1. Course Introduction
2. Why SQL Server 2012?
3. Installing, Configuring, and
Upgrading to SQL Server 2012
4. Creating & Managing Databases
5. Server Security
6. Backup and Restore
7. High Availability/Disaster Recovery
8. Jobs & Automating Maintenance
9. Creating Tables and Constraints
10. Writing Queries and
Manipulating Data
11. Views, Indexes, and Query Plans
12. Stored Procedures, Triggers, &
UDFs
13. Database Security
14. Business Intelligence in 2012
15. Analysis Services 2012
16. Integration Services 2012
17. Reporting Services 2012

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Chapter 02: Why SQL Server 2012?Chapter 02
• What Is SQL Server
2012?
• Types of Database
Management
Systems
• The Languages of
SQL Server 2012
• What’s New in the
SQL Server 2012
Database Engine?
• What’s New in SSIS
2012?
• What’s New in SSRS
2012?
• What’s New in
SSAS 2012?

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SQL Server 2012:
– SQL Server version 11.0
– Evolutionary for most areas
• User‐defined server roles, sequence objects, etc
– Revolutionary in some areas
• ColumnStore indexes, AlwaysOn, etc.

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You can skip ahead to video #007
if:
– You know what SQL Server is
– You know the languages of SQL Server

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What is SQL Server?
– Hard question to answer!
– SQL Server is both:
• A suite of software
• A product name

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SQL Server 2012:

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SQL Server 2012:

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The term SQL Server 2012 is
confusing
– Microsoft’s marketing department wants
you to think of the entire suite
– Colloquially, most people just mean the
Database Engine

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Database Engine and SSAS store
and manage data
– They are DBMS’
• DataBase Management Systems
– D.E. is a relational DBMS
– SSAS is a multidimensional DBMS
– (more on these terms later)

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Reporting Services and Integration
Services are not DBMS’
– SSIS is an ETL tool
• Extract, Transform, and Load
– SSRS is only about reporting
• It uses the DE behind the scenes for data storage

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The interplay between the products:

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“Scott! What’s the difference
between the DE and SSAS though?”

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In the next video…
– Types of Database Management Systems
“If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive. “
- Dale Carnegie