By Sam Nasr March 25, 2008
Agenda
SQL Server 2008 Features
Break
Business Intelligence(BI) Features
Certification
Q&A
Surveys/Raffle
Networking at Winking Lizard (Rockside)
SQL Server 2008
Code name “katmai”
Currently in Beta
CTP available for free download
CTP contains working features end-end
RTM in Q3 2008
System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems:
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2008
Windows Vista
Windows XP Service Pack 2
For all download types:
32-bit systems:
Intel compatible Pentium III 600 MHz (1 GHz recommended)
64-bit systems:
1 GHz CPU
512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
675 MB of available hard disk space
What’s New?
Platform Features (DBA)
T-SQL Features
Data Types
Reporting Services
Platform Features
Transparent Data Encryption
External Key Management
Data Auditing (change tracking)
Hot Add CPU
Transparent Failover
Policy Implementation
Auto Synchronization (conflict detection)
T-SQL Features
Table Value Parameters
FileStream Object Storage
Merge
Variable initializers
Row constructors with >1 row
Compound operators (+=)
Grouping sets (extension of Group By clause)
Intellisense added
New Collations
CLR UDT 2GB capacity
Integrated Full Text Search
Sparse Columns (Indexing)
T-SQL Data Types
Geometery (for planar shapes, i.e. whse layout)
Geography (for GPS coordinates)
HierarchyID
date
time
datetime2
Datetimeoffset (timezone )
Date/Time Variables
SQL Server 2005:
SQL Server 2008:
Type Accuracy Range
Date 1 day 1-1-1 to 9999-12-31
time 100 nS 00:00:00 to
23:59.59.9999999
datetime2 100 nS 1-1-1 00:00:00 to
9999-12-31
23:59.59.9999999 datetimeoffset 100 nS 1-1-1 00:00:00 to
9999-12-31
23:59.59.9999999
Type Accuracy Range
Smalldatetime 1 min 1900-1-1 to 2079-6-6
Datetime 3.33 mS 1753-1-1 to 9999-12-31
Filestream
Filestream storage attribute on varbinary(max) column
Includes transactional access through Win32 API
PathName()
Get_Filestream_Transaction_context()
OpenSqlFileStream()
Demo
Table Value Parameters Grouping Sets
HierarchyID
New Date/Time variables , & datetimeoffset
Business Intelligence
SSRS free with SQL Server 2008
Incorporates Dundas Controls
Render to MS-Word
Scale out Analysis (read-only)
Subspace computations/aggregations
New Cube Design Tools
Best Practice Design Alerts
IIS Agnostic SSRS
CTP Gotchas (installation)
Services had to be set to Local System
Client tools failed to install initially
CTP Gotchas (RS)
Move objects only by dragging the “move”
icon
“move” icon is not always visible
ReportName not populated
ReportServer not automatically configured on localhost.
References
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/default.aspx
SQL Server 2008 Web Casts
http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/events-webcasts.aspx
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 CTP, February 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=749BD760-F404-4D45-9AC0- D7F1B3ED1053&displaylang=en
"First to Know“ SQL Server 2008 Exam Offer
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/sqlvs/offer/default.mspx
