1. An Inside Look at Microsoft SQL Server’s New
Business Intelligence Opportunities & Features
Brian Larson Dan English
Vice President Principal Business
of Technology Intelligence Consultant

2. Brian Larson
 Contributed to Original SSRS Code
 Frequent National Conference Speaker
 Former Columnist for SQL Server Magazine
Dan English
 Microsoft SQL Server MVP
 BI User Group Leadership Team Member
 Blog / Vimeo Screencasts / Twitter
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3.  What is Business Intelligence?
 Right Data - Right Time -
Right Place
 Enterprise Self-Service BI
 Data Management
 Data in the Cloud
 Implementation Planning
 Questions
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4. Business intelligence is all about equipping your organization for
effective decision making.
“Effective decisions are choices that move an organization closer to
an agreed-on set of goals in a timely manner.”
Delivering Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2012
“Business intelligence is the delivery of accurate, useful information
to the appropriate decision makers within the necessary timeframe
to support effective decision making
making.”
Delivering Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2012
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5. RIGHT DATA
RIGHT TIME
RIGHT PLACE
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6. IT Controls All Access
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7. Users Control the Data
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8. Personal BI
Product 1 127
Product 2 245
Product 3 183
BI
Semantic
Model
Excel with PowerPivot
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9. Team/Workgroup
SharePoint Library
/Department BI
Usage reporting
is provided by Product 1 127
the PowerPivot Product 2 245
Management Product 3 183
Dashboard.
BI
Semantic
Model
Excel with PowerPivot
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10. Team/Workgroup
SharePoint Library
/Department BI
Product 1 127
Product 2 245
Product 3 183
BI
Semantic
Model
Excel with PowerPivot
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11. Enterprise-wide BI
Sales
Product 1 127
Product 1 127
Product 2 245
Product 32 183
Product 245
Product 3 183
BI
BI
Semantic
Semantic
Model
Model
Excel with PowerPivot
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12. DATA MODEL
SCALABILITY DEMO
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13. ENTERPRISE SELF-SERVICE BI
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14. Everyone Does What They Do Best
BI
Semantic
Sales
Model
Product 1 127 Two types:
Product 2 245
Product 3 183
• Multidimensional (Cube)
• Tabular (PowerPivot)
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15. Tools for the Business User
 Excel (PivotTable/PivotChart, PowerPivot)
 PerformancePoint Services
in SharePoint 2010
 Reporting Services using Report Builder
 Power View
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16. POWER VIEW DEMO
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17. DATA MANAGEMENT
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18. Integration Services
 Now a full-fledged server product with its
own database for storing deployed packages
 Streamlined package deployment
 Package parameters provide easier
configuration
 Support for versioning, logging, and
reporting
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19. Data Quality Services
 Create a central repository of rules and lists
of valid data for your organization.
 As data flows through your organization, it
can be programmatically validated and
corrected.
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20. Data Quality Services
Domain – Minnesota Cities
Rules Values Correct To
Domain – Minnesota Zip Codes
• Must have 3 or Ada Mineapolis ->
Adams Minneapolis
more characters
Adrian Domain – Minnesota Counties
Afton St. Paul -> St Paul
• Must have 21 or Aitkin
fewer characters Akeley Edyna -> Edina
Albany
DQS Knowledge Base
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21. Data Quality Services
Manual
Corrections
One-time Enterprise
Projects Data
Auto-
Correct
Domain – MN Cities
Domain – MN Zip Codes
Domain – MN Counties
DQS Knowledge Base
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22. Data Quality Services
BI Data
SSIS Enterprise Warehouse
Packages Data or
Enterprise
Data Store
Domain – MN Cities
Domain – MN Zip Codes
Domain – MN Counties
DQS Knowledge Base
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23. DATA QUALITY
SERVICES DEMO
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24. Column Store Index
 Improves performance of typical star-schema
queries Dimension
Table
Dimension Dimension
Table Table
Large
Fact
Table
Dimension Dimension
Table Table
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25. ColumnStore Index
 Stores the table data in a column-oriented
rather than a row-oriented manner
 Utilizes highly-efficient data compression,
which reduces data reads and increases the
efficiency of in-memory caching
 Can improve performance when loading an
OLAP cube
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26. ColumnStore Index Limitations
 A table cannot be updated while a column
store index is in place
 Certain data types cannot be included in
column store indexes
 Not all queries benefit from a column store
index
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27. High Availability
 AlwaysOn Availability Groups provide
enhanced database mirroring
 Automatic and manual failover of a group of
databases
 Seamless application failover through a
group listener
 Secondary instances can be used for
reporting and backup operations
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28. High Availability
 AlwaysOn Failover Clusters provide cross-
datacenter failover
 AlwaysOn supports rolling upgrade and
patching to reduce downtime
 Easier management through System Center
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29. DATA IN THE CLOUD
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30. SQL Azure
Local SQL Azure
Application Database
Cloud-based
Application
SQL Windows Azure
Server
Database
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31. SQL Azure
Local SQL Azure
Application Database
Local
Application
Local
Application
Local
Application
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32. SQL Server 2012 and SQL Azure
 SQL Azure and SQL Server 2012 share a
common architecture
 Increased ease of data movement between
on-premise and the cloud
 Write once/run anywhere with SQL Server
Data Tools
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33. IMPLEMENTATION PLANNING
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34. Standard
Edition 
Business
Intelligence 
Edition
Enterprise
Edition 
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35.  Basic Transaction Standard
Processing Edition 
 Basic Reporting
and Analytics
Licensing
 Limitation on # of Choice of Core-based
or
Cores Server + CAL licensing
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36. Standard Edition plus… Business
Intelligence 
 Enterprise Data Edition
Management
 Self-Service Business
Licensing
Intelligence Server + CAL
licensing
 Corporate Business
Intelligence
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37. BI Edition plus…
Enterprise
 Advanced Security Edition 
 High Volume Data
Warehousing
Licensing
 Advanced High Core-based
Availability
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38. Other Editions in Earlier SQL Server Versions
 Datacenter Edition is being retired.
All features available in the Enterprise Edition
 Workgroup & Small Business Editions are
being retired.
 Web Edition will be available only through a
Services Provider Licensing Agreement
(SPLA).
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39. Tools from Microsoft
 Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
Create an inventory of existing SQL Server instances
 Upgrade Advisor
Identifies SQL Server issues to fix before or after you
upgrade
 Distributed Replay Utility
Use to compare performance under load before and after
an upgrade in a test environment
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40. Upgrade in Stages
 Not all SQL instances need to be upgraded
at the same time
 Select a SQL Server 2012 feature that
provides a significant ROI and put in a 2012
instance to implement that feature
 Always test in a parallel environment before
upgrading production
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41. QUESTIONS
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42. Thank you for attending!
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