Today we are excited to announce the release of SQL Server Code Name “Denali” Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP3). This CTP release represents a significant milestone for customers and partners looking to experience the extensive new value delivered in Denali.
SQL Server Code Name “Denali” CTP3 brings a huge number of new capabilities for customers to explore and test. Product highlights for this CTP include:
- Greater availability. Deliver the required 9s and data protection you need with AlwaysOn which delivers added functionality over CTP1.
- Blazing-fast performance. Get unprecedented performance gains with Project “Apollo,” a new column store index that offers 10-100x star join or similar query performance improvements available for the first customer preview.
Breakthrough insight. Unlock new insights with rapid data exploration across your organization with Project “Crescent,” available to customers for the first time. Get your hands on the data exploration and visualization tool that everyone is talking about and enables end users to explore data at the speed of thought.
- Credible, consistent data. Provide a consistent view across heterogeneous data sources with the BI Semantic Model (BISM) a single model for Business Intelligence applications, from reporting and analysis to dashboards and scorecards. Make data quality a part of everyday life with the Master Data Services add-in for Excel and new Data Quality Services that is integrated with third party data providers through Windows Azure Marketplace. Customers can test this functionality for the first time and put data management and cleansing tools in the hands of those who need it. Available integrated Marketplace providers include:
- Cdyne: CDYNE Phone Verification will validate the first 7 digits of your phone number(s) and return what carrier the phone number id is assigned to, whether it is a cellular number or a land line, the telco, and additional information including time zone, area code and email address if it is a cellular number
- Digital Trowel: Powerlinx allows users to send data for refinement and enhancement and receive back cleansed and enriched data. The database contains 10 million company website addresses, 25 million detailed company profiles, and 25 million executives, including 5 million in-depth profiles with email addresses and phone numbers.
- Loqate: The Loqate Verify enables users to parse, standardize, verify, cleanse, transliterate, and format address data for 240+ world countries.
- Loqate: The Geocode enables a latitude-longitude coordinate to be added to any world address with worldwide coverage to city or postal code for over 120 countries
- Melissa Data: WebSmart Address Check parses, standardizes, corrects and enriches U.S. and Canadian addresses to increase deliverables, reduce wasted postage and printing, and enhance response
- Productive development experience. Optimize IT and developer productivity across server and cloud with Data-tier Application Component (DAC) parity with SQL Azure and SQL Server Developer Tools code name “Juneau” for a unified and modern development experience across database, BI, and cloud functions. Additionally, Express customers can test a new LocalDB version for fast, zero-configuration installation.
Get it Here : https://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/pd/SQLDCTP3CTA/enus/
Today we are excited to announce the release of SQL Server Code Name “Denali” Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP3). This CTP release represents a significant milestone for customers and partners looking to experience the extensive new value delivered in Denali.
SQL Server Code Name “Denali” CTP3 brings a huge number of new capabilities for customers to explore and test. Product highlights for this CTP include:
- Greater availability. Deliver the required 9s and data protection you need with AlwaysOn which delivers added functionality over CTP1.
- Blazing-fast performance. Get unprecedented performance gains with Project “Apollo,” a new column store index that offers 10-100x star join or similar query performance improvements available for the first customer preview.
Breakthrough insight. Unlock new insights with rapid data exploration across your organization with Project “Crescent,” available to customers for the first time. Get your hands on the data exploration and visualization tool that everyone is talking about and enables end users to explore data at the speed of thought.
- Credible, consistent data. Provide a consistent view across heterogeneous data sources with the BI Semantic Model (BISM) a single model for Business Intelligence applications, from reporting and analysis to dashboards and scorecards. Make data quality a part of everyday life with the Master Data Services add-in for Excel and new Data Quality Services that is integrated with third party data providers through Windows Azure Marketplace. Customers can test this functionality for the first time and put data management and cleansing tools in the hands of those who need it. Available integrated Marketplace providers include:
- Cdyne: CDYNE Phone Verification will validate the first 7 digits of your phone number(s) and return what carrier the phone number id is assigned to, whether it is a cellular number or a land line, the telco, and additional information including time zone, area code and email address if it is a cellular number
- Digital Trowel: Powerlinx allows users to send data for refinement and enhancement and receive back cleansed and enriched data. The database contains 10 million company website addresses, 25 million detailed company profiles, and 25 million executives, including 5 million in-depth profiles with email addresses and phone numbers.
- Loqate: The Loqate Verify enables users to parse, standardize, verify, cleanse, transliterate, and format address data for 240+ world countries.
- Loqate: The Geocode enables a latitude-longitude coordinate to be added to any world address with worldwide coverage to city or postal code for over 120 countries
- Melissa Data: WebSmart Address Check parses, standardizes, corrects and enriches U.S. and Canadian addresses to increase deliverables, reduce wasted postage and printing, and enhance response
- Productive development experience. Optimize IT and developer productivity across server and cloud with Data-tier Application Component (DAC) parity with SQL Azure and SQL Server Developer Tools code name “Juneau” for a unified and modern development experience across database, BI, and cloud functions. Additionally, Express customers can test a new LocalDB version for fast, zero-configuration installation.
Get it Here : https://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/pd/SQLDCTP3CTA/enus/
Now that there is a beta of SQL 11 ( denali ) I want to see if I can break my Cluster with SQL 2008 on it during the upgrade. Yes I can.
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These are testing machines ( snapshot of production ) and the screenshot are showing you what can go wrong. It was hard to make a blog post about this there was so much to fix and to do and to explane how to solve things. At the end I deside to create a fresh cluster ;-(
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I use a 2 node cluster windows 2008r2 with SQL 2008 on it 2 named sql instances.
Lesson 1 be prepared and no rush during de upgrade.
Lesson 2 Make sure your current SQL cluster is fine if not do not upgrade !
In my post http://robertsmit.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/clustering-sql-2008-on-windows-2008-r2-what-can-go-wrong/ and I guessed it would be fun to do this with SQL Denali.
Well It is fun but the things I want to fix and to make sure the I can fix it and write a blog about this was not easy.
Well this blog is holding a lot of screen shots to see what and how the installation can be done.
So my 2 node cluster that I used for the SQL 2008 what can go wrong is up and running and ready for the beta sql 11.
I downloaded the SQL denali beta mounted the ISO in my hyper-V and started the splash.
But first let me test this on a brand new cluster and see how things are going.
Except I use the Same IP for the SQL instance ( typo on perpes )
Ok I needed a reboot package after the reboot I’m ready to go
Fill in your key or leave it this way ( give your key later )
Give the file location and name the instance
I give the disk and the IP number ( make sure it is a free IP )
Put in the service account
Some new screens
Well All set and ready to go But during the install there was this error, What is it and why ?
Well It seams that I used a Ip adress that was not Free but why this error and why not installing and leave the resource off line. So what is the status of the install.
Well there is no cluster good that this was not the production SQL so lets remove it an reinstall
Can’t find the SQL , yes the setup did not install it but why ?
But on more error messages to go there is no clean fix and this is just for not putting in a right Ip adress. next step clean out the register and delete the files, and rerun the setup again.
After playing with denali and upgrading , deinstall , install, fresh install , Win2008R2 Sp1
If you are beta testing denali on a cluster do not use the setup for cluster node install but choose the prepare for cluster install and after that use the finish cluster install. this works fine and fast.
Both my test clusters are broken during the upgrade It is all my fault I did this and not all the errors are SQL denali problems. but the main problem is make sure you have a plan and if something goes wrong make sure you can fixit or do a rollback.
In my case the only thing I did was a taken IP address and running an instance that is clustered and running a non clustered instance on both nodes. seems not logical at all. But have you seen crappy sql clusters ? Or are all your Clusters in excellent shape ?
dumb questions do not exist, but have you ever worked on a helpdesk ?
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_calls.shtml
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