Senior DBA Leigh Verhave provides an overview of key new features in SQL Server 2008 R2.

1. RockSolid What’s New in SQL Server 2008 R2? Leigh Verhave Senior DBA Red Rock Consulting

2. Overview Two New Editions SQL Server 2008 R2 Data Center SQL Server 2008 Parallel Data Server Backup & Data Compression Multi Server Management Master Data Services Power Pivot Self Server BI Complex Event Processing (CEP) SQL Server 2008 R2

3. SQL Server 2008 Data Center >8 Physical Processors – 256 Logical Processors Enterprise now only supports 8 Physical Virtualization Support One licensed node can support unlimited virtual SQL Server Instances Enterprise can only support 4 StreamInsight CEP >25 instances for multi server management RockSolid does a better job if you are using it SQL Server 2008 R2

4. Parallel Data Server MPP Distributed Data Warehouse think Teradata, Netezza, Vertica etc Supports 100s of Terabytes of data Analytical style queries only Long running, high touch, high impact queries Low concurrency typical on MPP Only supported in “preconfigured” systems from certain hardware vendors DELL, HP, BULL etc Microsoft aiming for SUD$11K per terabyte One of the lowest costs per terabyte of any MPP vendor Not fully compatible with traditional TSQL SQL standards supported, TSQL extensions not so much SSRS, SSIS & SSAS integration SQL Server 2008 R2

5. R2 DBA Features Data and index partitioning Instant file initialization Windows 2003 Server and above Online Re-index and create Online Restore Database available when primary file restored Backup compression R2 standard edition SQL Server 2008 Data compression (vardecimaldatatype in SQL Server 2005) Data change auditing (Change Data Capture) Resource Governor (CPU & Memory) SQL Server 2008 R2

6. Power Pivot Power Pivot Power Pivot is an in memory column store Runs on SQL Server client Integrates with Excel 2010 & Sharepoint 2010 Allows for large datasets to be quickly sliced & diced Self Service Business Intelligence DAC SQL Server 2008 R2

7. Why Upgrade? Upgrade to 2008 R2 not 2008 SQL Server 2000 Support is being phased out Mainstream support has expired (some support available until 2013 by Microsoft) Backup compression Data compression General database and optimizer improvements Reporting services improvements New graph types in 2008 SQL Server 2008 R2

8. How to Upgrade? If you are a support customer? Ask us. We can help here. Otherwise the upgrade advisor is a good place to start http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f5a6c5e9-4cd9-4e42-a21c-7291e7f0f852&displaylang=en SQL Server 2008 R2

9. Q & A