Blazing-Fast Performance

SQL Server 2012 helps customers Blazing-Fast Query Performance  Dramatically compress data up to
gain more predictable and next- 300x² with xVelocity in-memory
Reach a new level of analytics engine, which uses
generation performance backed by
performance with data aggressive compression and
industry-leading benchmarks and
warehouse queries column-oriented storage.
real-world applications.
 Boost query performance by 10-
100x¹ for star join and similar
Highlights queries with xVelocity in-memory
 Next-generation performance column store index for data
with xVelocity in-memory warehousing. Global antivirus company, Trend
technologies Micro, needed to accelerate
 Dramatically improve query
searches for its massive malware
 Speed built into the engine processing speed with the new
database, which had grown past
vector-based query execution that
 Proactive management tools 50 terabytes. With SQL Server
addresses modern day performance
 Verified by industry and real- 2012 and xVelocity in-memory
realities by reducing overhead,
world application benchmarks column store index functionality,
taking advantage of larger cache
Trend Micro was able to:
sizes, and limiting the number of
Next-Generation CPU instructions.  Cut query wait time by 1/3
Performance  Respond faster to virus threats
Experience a generational leap Business Insight at the Speed of
in performance across SQL Thought  Stay ahead of the competition
Server with xVelocity in-memory Help accelerate new insights
technologies for data with rapid data exploration Predictable Performance
warehousing and business within massive data volumes Benefit from a higher level of
intelligence  Interactively explore 10s of billions predictability, and perform more
of rows of data using xVelocity in- proactive troubleshooting and
memory analytics engine for diagnostics
business intelligence.
 Consistent Performance  Improve query processing by
Leading TPC Benchmarks
Get improved consistency of selecting and creating an optimal
Make a bet on a leading performer
performance, even for multi- set of indexes with the Database
in industry-relevant TPC
tenancy environments, such as a Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA).
benchmarks¹.
private cloud
Speed, Built-in  SQL Server is the uncontested
 Achieve more consistent
Take advantage of significant new leader in TPC-E performance, with 7
performance for concurrent and
capabilities in SQL Server 2012 for results published in 2011, and 49
mixed workloads by defining
enhanced scalability and results since the benchmark was
resource usage across different
performance ratified in 2007 and record-breaking
applications with Resource
 More easily manage large data results for SQL Server 2012¹.
Governor.
volumes for applications like SAP,  SQL Server also receives high ratings
 Affinitize your resource pools to
with support for up to 15k partitions in many of the TPC-H categories,
schedulers, groups of schedulers,
for large sliding windows scenarios. focused on measuring Decision
and NUMA nodes.
 Support blazing-fast queries with Support¹.
Proactive Management Tools dramatic improvements to Full-Text
Search that offer serious
Proven Real-World Performance
Manage more efficiently and
Count on performance that is
proactively using familiar tools performance and scale advances.
proven in industry-tested
within a single console  Improve the relevance of your applications
 Use SQL Server Management Studio search results with statistical
 SQL Server 2012 is delivering truly
as your single environment for semantic search, which uses
astonishing performance in real-
accessing, configuring, managing, algorithms in SQL Server to quickly
world scenarios, with benchmarks
administering, and developing all deliver statistically relevant results
that prove scalability to 250 million
components of SQL Server. based on search inquiries.
subscribers, 25 million
 Collect data from T-SQL queries,  Accelerate the performance of I/O capitalizations and account accruals
such as DMVs, Windows intensive workloads by cutting processed in <42 minutes, and 10-
Performance Counters, and the SQL growing volumes of data ~50-60%³ 100x gains for common data
Trace, and bundle it into a collection with enterprise-grade compression warehouse queries¹.
set using the Performance Data capabilities.
 Release over release, SQL Server is
Collector.  Get the scalability and high- SAP-certified to run some of the
 Use Policy-Based Management to performance you need for very large industry’s most demanding
create policies for managing entities workloads or consolidation workloads.
on the server, such as a SQL Server scenarios with support for up to 640
instance, databases, or other SQL cores and 4TB of memory.
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 Monitor only the events you are Industry-Verified
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events for near real-time diagnosis platform backed by major
using SQL Server Profiler. industry benchmarks and proven
 Gain better insight into resource in real-world applications
utilization with multi-server
management to proactively make
changes before trouble arises.

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http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/product-info/benchmarks.aspx ²Microsoft internal testing ³ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb964719(v=SQL.100).aspx