Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Unleash powerful new features to make big data work for you.

Business applications are more powerful and complex than they were even a few years back – which means more companies are producing and managing a lot more data. The challenge with this big data phenomenon is not only keeping up with the capacity of data but also finding ways to make it as useful as possible. Without the right technology, you'll end up struggling just to keep pace.

ServerBeach understands this, and it's why we offer Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 as a data management solution. With SQL Server 2012, we can offer you highly effective big data management capabilities – complete with advanced Business Intelligence and data insight features like integrated indexing, rapid data discovery tools, semantic search, and a cloud-ready platform. Then we back it up with our expert 24x7x365 hardware and network support to help you along.

With ServerBeach hosting and supporting your dedicated physical SQL Server 2012 box, you can manage increasing data volumes and get the most from your data. With a long, trusted reputation for helping companies successfully manage their data, you can be confident in staking your data needs on SQL Server 2012.

Start a live chat to learn more about how ServerBeach can enhance your business with SQL Server 2012.

Supported Microsoft SQL Server Versions

 

Solid offering for departmental IT and enhanced enterprise data platform.

• Management Studio
• Database Mirroring
• Partitioning
• XQuery and CLR
• Service broker

 

Massive strides in mission critical & business intelligence.

• Resource Governor
• Transparent data encryption
• Auditing
• Compression
• HA Enhancements
• Policy-Based Management
• Beyond Relational (Spatial, FILESTREAM, & DATETIME)
• Report Builder 2.0
• SSAS performance & scale

 

Comprehensive, integrated data management and business intelligence with award-winning analytics.

• PowerPivot for Microsoft SharePoint®
• Report Builder 3.0
• Master Data Services
• Multi-Server Management
• Microsoft Hyper-V™ Live Migration
• StreamInsight
• Unicode Compression

 

A new standard for mission critical databases and end-to-end business intelligence with cloud-ready technologies and solutions.

• Expanded Audit
• Power View for stunning interactive data visualizations
• Credible, consistent data via BI Semantic Model & Data Quality Services
• Unified development, SQL Server Data Tools
• Scale across on-premises and cloud, built-in
• ColumnStore Index for up to 10x DW performance gains
• 15k Partitions

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Datasheet

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Faster Performance

Data Volume Management Optimization

Semantic Search and other built-in data features boost query performance, even across massive data sets.

15K Partitions

The expanded number of partitions in SQL Server 2012 supports significantly faster queries.

Enhanced Data Compression

Row and page compression for tables and indexes, configurable per partition, helps shrink data volumes by 50-60%, accelerating the performance of I/O intensive workloads.

Enhanced Data Insight

Semantic Search

Extend full-text search capabilities by enabling text-based and meaning-based queries.

ColumnStore Indexing

Integrated batch processing, segmentation elimination, and a highly compressed indexing format produce a 10-100x performance gain with complex BI queries.

Crescent Rapid Data Discovery & Self-Service Business Intelligence

Deliver highly interactive, web-based capabilities for exploring, visualizing, and presenting data for users of all levels.

Optimize Your Operations

Get the Most From Your Data

Business intelligence (BI) tools provide new ways of seeing mission critical data, giving you the business insights you need to run and grow your operations.

Focus On Your Core Business

Consolidation and virtualization features reduce TCO while protecting your data and improving its availability.

Go to the Cloud on Your Terms

SQL Server 2012 offers the agility to rapidly create scalable solutions so IT can keep pace with new business opportunities in the public cloud.

Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Experience and Infrastructure Expertise

Solution Design Consultation and 24x7x365 Support

ServerBeach's infrastructure experts have extensive experience supporting IT groups of all sizes. Our customers leverage complex and demanding eCommerce platforms like Magento, WebSphere Commerce and Oracle ATG—often with highly demanding SLAs. Work with us to design and deploy an optimized infrastructure solution that meets your unique business needs, and call on us 24x7x365 to help address any hardware or networking related problems you might experience.

Thanks to powerful new features and advancements in technology, hosted SQL Server 2012 is the gateway to secure, cost-effective data management operations. Save time and money on big data, and start letting all that data work for you.

Manage Big Data More Efficiently

New capabilities like 15K partitions and enhanced data compression improve performance and help you manage high data volumes with fewer resources.

Leverage State-of-the-Art Infrastructure

Powered by our fully redundant FastFiber Network™ datacenters across the US, UK and Canada, and our portfolio of managed add-on services, your SQL Server 2012 solution will leverage the same infrastructure that many Fortune 1000 companies rely on every day.

Gain Insights Faster

SQL Server 2012's intuitive BI features make it easy to explore new insights into even the largest data sets, readily visualize the data, and share key insights with other users.

Accelerate Deployment (and ROI)

SQL Server 2012 delivers the capabilities you need to master the big data challenge using the same trusted, familiar Microsoft platform you already know. This saves you time not having to learn about unfamiliar technologies, and results in faster deployment and a bigger bang for your buck.

Expert Hardware and Networking Support

Our team of infrastructure and networking experts is available 24x7x365 to ensure that the resources powering your SQL Server 2012 solution run smoothly and securely. We're ready to help with everything from designing the ideal solution, to upgrading servers, to responding at a moment's notice when any special infrastructure needs arise.

Start a live chat to learn how you can realize these benefits using SQL Server 2012.

ServerBeach offers cool, optional technology components and services that add value to your SQL Server 2012 solution and help you fine-tune it for your specific needs.

Firewalls and Private Networking

Our team of experts can deploy fully dedicated, enterprise-grade firewalls and a private network to enhance the security of your website or application.

RapidEdge CDN™

ServerBeach's content delivery network further optimizes the performance of your website by placing valuable content like catalog images closer to your customers.

AnyCast DNS™

Comprised of 27 geographically dispersed clusters of high performance servers powering your DNS lookups, AnyCast DNS™ shaves crucial milliseconds off the time it takes your customer's browser to lookup your web site's IP address. Less time performing DNS lookups means faster page load times and better SEO, which ultimately translates into more revenue for your business.

Start a live chat for help determining your best options with SQL Server 2012.

Increasingly complex business data needs have pushed the evolution of SQL Server over the years. With the latest version, SQL Server 2012, you can use new technology and features to innovate fast, dynamic new ways of gathering, visualizing, analyzing, and managing your company's big data.

SQL Server 2012 provides a new standard for mission critical databases and end-to-end BI capabilities to help you achieve the greatest success in your data operations.

Choose the Right Edition for Your Business

ServerBeach offers four SQL Server 2012 editions to give you the most flexibility when building your solution.

Start a live chat for help understanding which SQL Server 2012 edition is right for your business.

SQL Server 2012 Capabilities	Express with Tools1	Web2	Standard	Enterprise
Hosting Scenarios & Target Customers	Desktop, Web Apps, Small Server Apps	Web Apps, Dedicated	Departmental LOB, Small/Mid-Scale, Dedicated	Mission Critical, Large Scale, Dedicated or Shared
Maximum Number of Cores	1 Socket or 4 cores	4 Sockets or 16 Cores	4 Sockets or 16 cores	OS Max3
Basic OLTP, Programmability & Developer Tools, Manageability (Management studio, policy based management)
Basic Corporate BI (Reporting, Analytics, Multidimensional Semantic Model, Data Mining)		Partial Support
Self-Service Business Intelligence (Alerting, Power View, PowerPivot for SharePoint Server)4
Advanced Corporate BI (Tabular BI Semantic Model, Advanced Analytics and Reporting, VertiPag™ In-Memory Engine)
Advanced Security (Advanced auditing, transparent data encryption)
Data Warehousing (Column store index, compression, partitioning)

• ¹ The Express edition is available at no additional cost.
• ² Web Edition will only be available via SPLA.
• ³ Existing SQL Server Enterprise edition licenses in the Server + CAL licensing model upgraded to SQL Server 2012 will be limited to server deployments with 20 cores or less. Refer to Datasheet for more details.
• ⁴ SharePoint Server with Enterprise CAL is a system requirement for Power View and PowerPivot for SharePoint. Alerting is accessible through SharePoint Foundation or above.