SQL Server 2012: Cloud-ready Information Platform
SQL Server 2012 is a cloud-ready information platform backed by best-in-class availability and performance. It can help organizations unlock breakthrough insights across the organization, quickly build solutions, and extend data across on-premises and public cloud.
Enable mission critical performance and availability at low TCO.
- Improved Always On, new High Availability solution with 8x faster throughput and 2x faster failover.
- Advanced Column-store index for astonishing performance gains - 10-100x.
- Audit across all editions for ~45% greater compliance using built-in tools.
Unlock new insights with pervasive data discovery across the organization.
- Power View and PowerPivot empower business users to create visually rich dashboards or reports in minutes, avoiding lengthy delays in business users getting the reports that they need.
- Data Quality Services Partitioning scalability is now up to 15k for built-in data warehouse (DW) scale.
Quickly create business solutions on your terms across servers to private or public clouds.
- Easily move applications across on-premises and cloud with unlimited virtualization and license mobility.
- Enable Hybrid IT to provide flexibility and options across on-premises and the cloud.
- Improved Common management & development tools: SQL Server® Data Tools, T-SQL & SSMS.