{"id":3613,"date":"2012-04-02T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:49:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:49:45","slug":"sql-server-2012-is-generally-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/sql-server-2012-is-generally-available\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2012 is Generally Available!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI';font-size: small\">Microsoft is excited to announce the general availability (GA) of SQL Server 2012 for purchase and download. SQL Server 2012 has already been deployed for production use by hundreds of global, industry-leading customers, such as Volvo Car Corp., Revlon, the HSN, Klout and LG Chemical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI';font-size: small\">SQL Server 2012 delivers a powerful new set of capabilities for mission-critical workloads, business intelligence and hybrid IT across traditional datacenters and public and private clouds. This includes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI'\"><strong>SQL Server AlwaysOn<\/strong>, a new high availability solution delivering increased application availability, lower TCO and ease of use.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI'\"><strong>xVelocity<\/strong>, in-memory technologies significantly boost data warehouse and analytics performance by up to 100x.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI'\"><strong>Power View<\/strong>, a web-based, highly interactive, data visualization and presentation solution designed to enable business users and decision makers to quickly discover meaningful insights from their data.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI'\">Data integration and management, new and enhanced tools to deliver credible, consistent data to the right users at the right time, including new <b>SQL Server Data Quality Services<\/b> and enhanced <b>Master Data Services.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI'\"><b>Enhanced PowerPivot functionalities<\/b> enable customers to leverage new advanced analytic capabilities and further ease of use while still working within the familiar tools provided by Excel. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI';font-size: small\">The new <b>Business Intelligence (BI) Semantic Model <\/b>provides a single, scalable model for BI applications, from reporting and analysis to dashboards and scorecards. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI'\"><strong>SQL Server Data Tools<\/strong>, a new tool that unifies SQL Server and cloud SQL Azure development for both professional database and application developers.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI';font-size: small\">Customers can download the latest version of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/sqlserver\/en\/us\/get-sql-server\/try-it.aspx\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI';font-size: small\">SQL Server 2012 here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI';font-size: small\">. 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