The Microsoft's SQL Server 2012 Developer Edition delivers comprehensive high-end datacenter capabilities for demanding databases and business intelligence requirements. It is a cloud-ready information platform that will help organizations unlock breakthrough insights across the organization and quickly build solutions to extend data across on-premises and public cloud, backed by mission critical confidence. This edition is a per-developer access license.
Enable a modern data platform with SQL Server 2012. It offers built-in mission critical capabilities and enables breakthrough insights across the organization with familiar analytics tools and enterprise-ready Big Data solutions. Common architecture and tools enable Hybrid IT infrastructures, which help move your business forward and unlock new business models.
SQL Server AlwaysOn
A new unified HA solution for greater uptime, faster failover and better use of hardware resources.
Power View
A highly interactive data exploration and visualization tool. Discover new insights at the speed of thought with Power View, familiar browser-based data exploration, visualization and presentation experience for users of all levels. Additionally, PowerPivot empowers users to access and mash-up data from virtually any source, including Big Data sources using familiar tools.
xVelocity
Helps enable a generational leap in performance across data warehousing and business intelligence.
Data Quality Services
Improve data quality by using organizational knowledge and third-party reference data providers, to profile, cleanse and match data.
Distributed Replay
Production-like application testing enables high-scale out-testing for mission critical apps, configuration changes and upgrades.
Enhanced Audit
Increase manageability related to auditing with audit resilience, filtering, user-defined audit and enablement across all editions.
Run Demanding Workloads
Today's world of continuous services and connected devices demand applications and data to be up and available. SQL Server 2012 Enterprise is designed to support today's demanding applications with built-in mission critical capabilities.
Required 9s
Deliver required uptime and data protection, server to cloud without wasting time and money. New SQL Server AlwaysOn is a unified high availability and disaster recovery solution that helps deliver greater uptime, faster failover and gain better use of hardware resources.
Blazing-Fast Performance
Gain predictable and next-generation performance backed by customer, partner and industry-leading benchmarks. Experience up to 10-100x improvements in performance with xVelocity in-memory technologies for both Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. Speed built into the engine enables faster access to data within unstructured data.
Organizational Compliance and Security
Enable security and compliance with built-in security and IT controls. Increased manageability related to auditing with audit resilience, filtering, user-defined audit and enablement across all SQL Server editions facilitate compliance while new fine-grained control over data access supports data access policies.
Peace of Mind
Ensure peace of mind with the right product tools, premier services and support offerings, a trusted partner ecosystem and a wealth of no-fee tools. SQL Server 2012 delivers capabilities and programs that ensure last mile excellence like new Distributed Replay for production-like testing, updated management packs for System Center Operations Manager and Premier Support options.
Unlock Breakthrough Insights
With today's unprecedented data explosion, organizations need to efficiently store, manage and unlock breakthrough insights within their data and across Big Data. SQL Server 2012 delivers the necessary capabilities to support scalable data warehousing, data cleansing and management, and rapid data exploration and visualization for end users. Enterprise includes all the BI functionality included in SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence edition.
Managed Self-Service BI
Balance the need to monitor, manage and govern the data and analytics end users create with IT dashboards controls across SQL Server and Microsoft SharePoint. This helps IT monitor end user activity, data source usage and gather performance metrics from servers. New to SQL Server 2012, IT can also transform end user-created BI applications in PowerPivot into corporate-grade solutions managed by IT.
Credible, Consistent Data
With SQL Server 2012, IT can better control and manage data through a new BI Semantic Model and enhancements to SQL Server Integration Services. Meanwhile, new Data Quality Services uses organizational knowledge and 3rd party reference data providers to reliably cleanse data and a new Master Data Services Add-in for Excel makes it easier for end users to manage and maintain central data.
Big Data Analytics and Scalable Data Warehousing
Enable scaling and flexibility with analytic and data warehouse solutions that offer massive scale at low cost. SQL Server 2012 supports structured data on scalable relational database and data warehouse offerings and via Big Data connectors, supports unstructured data on an Enterprise-ready Hadoop distribution. Meanwhile data warehouse reference architectures and appliances can offer incredible price/TB and help speed time to solution.
Enable IT Ingenuity
SQL Server 2012 can help enable organizations quickly create and scale innovative Hybrid IT solutions across server, private or public cloud. Connection points in SQL Server 2012 make it easy to take advantage of Windows Azure Platform benefits glued together with common tools to build, extend and manage practically anywhere.
Scale on Demand
Scale on demand with flexible and hybrid deployment options, on your terms, server to cloud. Gain operational flexibility with proven Microsoft cloud offerings, private or public, that deliver interoperable deployment options with SQL Server 2012 Enterprise. Break free and scale beyond the constraints of any one deployment environment by taking advantage of Hybrid IT opportunities with a common architecture that spans traditional servers, appliances and the cloud.
Optimized Productivity
Optimize IT and developer productivity across server and cloud with common tools. New SQL Server Data Tools offers an integrated development experience across on-premises and public cloud. Additionally, Management Studio helps IT manage efficiently at scale with a wealth of database management tools, now with added support for snapshot backups to the cloud and connection points with Windows Azure SQL Database.
Extend Any Data, Anywhere
SQL Server 2012 supports relational and non-relational data, including Big Data sources like Hadoop. Additionally, customers can extend heterogeneous environments using any industry standard APIs (ADO.NET, ODBC, JDBC, PDO, and ADO) across varied platforms including .NET, C/C++, Java, Linux and PHP.