Denali – Day 25: Tools: Add-on to Sql server 2008 (R2)
MDS and Best Practice Analyzer new features were introduced in sql server 2008 R2,
System Health Session – Introduced in Sql server 2008
in Denali Microsoft tried to make it improved and stable.
- MDS (Master Data Services) – Introduced in Sql server 2008 R2
Master Data Services (MDS) Add-in for Microsoft Excel
New Silver light Explorer UI
Entity-Based Staging
New capabilities include:
? Batch tags
? Purge capabilities
? Advanced capability to remove assigned domain-based attributes
? Significantly increased performance
http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/technet/en-us/how-to-videos/SQL_How-to_Videos_image.xml
- Tool: Best Practice Analyzer
- Introduced in Sql server 2008 R2
Denali also provided several TOOLs related to engine to enhance the database system and improve it which saves time and makes system more redundant.
Best Practice Analyzer is one of them.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlsecurity/archive/2012/04/19/sql-server-2012-best-practices-analyzer.aspx
- System Health Session – Introduced in Sql server 2008
The system_health session is an Extended Events session that is included by default with SQL Server. This session starts automatically when the SQL Server Database Engine starts, and runs without any noticeable performance effects. The session collects system data that you can use to help troubleshoot performance issues in the Database Engine. Therefore, we recommend that you do not stop or delete the session.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff877955.aspx
They are new and I have not worked on it, Will blog more on it later.
