{"id":12150,"date":"2012-03-07T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T10:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12150"},"modified":"2012-03-07T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T10:40:07","slug":"sql-server-2012-rtm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12150","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2012 RTM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read yesterday that SQL Server 2012 had RTMd.&#160; It\u2019s not on MSDN yet.&#160; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlserverlaunch.com\/WW\/Agenda\" target=\"_blank\">online launch event<\/a> is later today at 16:00 GMT.&#160; There\u2019s lots more information about this new release on <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/hh231622(v=sql.110).aspx\" target=\"_blank\">TechNet<\/a>.&#160; There\u2019s a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/bb500435(v=sql.110).aspx\" target=\"_blank\">new features<\/a>, way too many for me to cover here, but the best one might be <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/hh510230(v=SQL.110).aspx\" target=\"_blank\">AlwaysOn<\/a>.&#160; That\u2019s a new database (or group of databases) availability feature, similar to DAG in Exchange.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Please take note that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/sqlserver\/en\/us\/future-editions\/sql2012-licensing.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">SQL 2012 licensing<\/a> is very different from what you are used to and there is a migration path for those with Software Assurance\/upgrade rights.<\/p>\n<p>Before you go upgrading your SQL, make sure that your products support SQL Server 2012.&#160; Don\u2019t just go assuming that they will, e.g. System Center.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT1:<\/p>\n<p>SQL 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/stbnewsbytes\/archive\/2012\/03\/06\/microsoft-releases-sql-server-2012-drives-advancements-in-big-data.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">general availability<\/a> will be April 1st.&#160; Please, no jokes <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" alt=\"Smile\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wlEmoticon-smile4.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:9f3abaa2-6fe8-4dcc-9ffc-239ad09586b7\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/SQL\" rel=\"tag\">SQL<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read yesterday that SQL Server 2012 had RTMd.&#160; It\u2019s not on MSDN yet.&#160; The online launch event is later today at 16:00 GMT.&#160; There\u2019s lots more information about this new release on TechNet.&#160; There\u2019s a lot of new features, way too many for me to cover here, but the best one might be AlwaysOn.&#160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12150\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SQL Server 2012 RTM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-12150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql","tag-sql"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}