{"id":752,"date":"2012-03-19T00:12:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T00:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bicortex.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2012-07-27T06:13:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T06:13:23","slug":"top-bi-features-of-sql-server-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bicortex.com\/bicortex\/top-bi-features-of-sql-server-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Top BI Features of MS SQL Server 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Microsoft has introduced SQL Server 2012 to the world (out 1<sup>st<\/sup> April) with a number of new features exclusive to this version only. DBAs will be happy at the announcement of such facades of this release as \u2018AlwaysOn\u2019 availability groups, user-defined server roles or enhanced auditing features; however it is the BI components additions\/changes that really define this version as class-leading. Microsoft has been saying for a while that the core data base engine is already very good thus concentrating on the BI functionality in more details and it certainly shows. Analytics and BI gained a number of features; some of the most prominent ones are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 Columnstore Indexes &#8212; This a powerful new feature that is completely unique to SQL Server. They are special type of read-only index designed to be use with Data Warehouse queries. Basically, data is grouped and stored in a flat, compressed column index, greatly reducing I\/O and memory utilization on large queries.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">BI Semantic Model &#8212; This is replacing the Analysis Services Unified Dimensional Model (or cubes most people referred to them). It&#8217;s a hybrid model that allows one data model will support all BI experiences in SQL Server. Additionally, this will allow for some really professional text infographics.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">PowerView &#8212; You may have heard of this under the name &#8220;Project Crescent&#8221; it is a fairly powerful self-service BI toolkit that allows users to create mash ups of BI reports from all over the Enterprise.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Big Data Support &#8212; Introduced at the PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) conference last year, Microsoft announced a partnership with Hadoop provider Cloudera. One part of this involves MS releasing an ODBC driver for SQL Server that will run on a Linux platform. Additionally, Microsoft is building connectors for Hadoop, which is an extremely popular NoSQL platform. 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