View from the Top: SQL 2012 'Denali' and SharePoint 2010

Best of SharePoint Conference 2011November 2011Chris McNulty

View from the Top:SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2012 “Denali”

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Chris McNulty• SharePoint Strategic Product

Manager at Quest Software

• 10+ years with SharePoint

• 20 years consulting (led KMA SharePoint practice) and financial services technology (Santander, John Hancock/Manulife, GMO, State Street)

• MBA in Investment Management from Boston College

• Write and speak often on Microsoft IW technologies (blogs & books)

• MCSE MCTS MSA MVTSP MCC

• Hiking, cooking, playing guitar, colonial history, photography

• My family: Hayley, three kids (17, 7, 5) and my dog Stan

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Agenda

• Business Intelligence in SharePoint Today

• SQL Server 2012 Overview

• SQL Server Reporting Services

• Power View – Crescent

• Always On

• Upgrade paths

• Conclusion

Goals for BI Design

• Answering the known questions about our business

• Allowing users to self-discover patterns and answers to questions we haven’t yet been asked

The carousel paradox…

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Complexity Levels of These Solutions

Time

Cost

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SharePoint BI Evolution

Chart Web Part

Excel Services• Excel Web

Access• PowerPivot

Enabling technologies• Business

Connectivity Services

• SQL Reporting Services

• Pivot• Azure

DataMarket

Performance Point• Dashboards• Analysis

Services

Custom Solutions• Mapping• Web Parts• Etc.

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SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

• “Code free” integrated solution (with SQL 2008 R2)• (can also use Business Intelligence

Developer Studio)

• SharePoint integrated mode preferred

• Export contents to Excel, Word, etc.

• Reuse in SharePoint and Performance Point Dashboards

• Use when some reports are printed, multipage, etc.

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PowerPivot

• “Project Gemini” – host 1-10MM row datasets

• Excel and SharePoint components

• Data doesn’t live in spreadsheet

• Released with SQL Server 2008 R2 but doesn’t explicitly require the R2 Engine

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Recap: Microsoft and SQL 2008 R2

• Invested heavily for Corporate BIShared DataSets

Report parts, Report part gallery

New Visualizations: Map, gauge, sparkline, databar, KPI

Ajax Report viewer

• Cut scenariosAdhoc reporting

Alerting


Introducing SQL Server 2012


SQL Server Provides Rapid Data Exploration

Browser-based Data

Visualizations

Familiar Tools Built on

Excel

Mash up data from

anywhere

28%HAVE ACCESS

72%DON’T HAVE ACCESS

Gartner, “Business Intelligence Purchase Drivers and Adoption Rates, 2009 Survey Results,” Bill Hostmann, Sept. 4, 2009

Only 28% of an organization has access to BI tools*


With Managed Self-Service BI

End-user enabled, IT managed

Productivity GAINSthrough

Self-Service

Monitor &manage

end user tasks

Single administration

from SharePoint


HardwareUTILIZATIO

N

Uptime

Productivity

New HighAvailability Solution

AlwaysOnSource: Internal Microsoft customer CTP TAP testing results

8x faster throughput greater data protection2x faster failover reduced downtime by half

Greater &

Provides Required 9s of Availability Without Cost and Complexity


Summary

Mission Critical

Confidence Required 9s Of Availability

Blazing Fast Performance

Enhanced Security And Compliance

Breakthrough

Insights

Credible Consistent Data

Rapid Data Exploration

and VisualizationManaged Self Service BI

Superior DW Scale

Cloud On Your Terms

Scale On Demand

Cloud and On Premise

SymmetryAny Data, Anywhere

DataPlatformNeeds

AGILITY FOR THE Future

INTELLIGENCE

For All

Peace Of Mind

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SharePoint/SQL 2012 BI

Chart Web Part

Excel Services• Excel Web

Access• PowerPivot

Enabling technologies• Business

Connectivity Services

• SQL Reporting Services

• Pivot• Azure

DataMarket

Performance Point• Dashboards• Analysis

Services

Custom Solutions• Mapping• Web Parts• Etc.

SSRS• Alerts• Data Feeds

PowerPivot• Power View Self-Service

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Self Service Alerting – User Benefits

• Users create alerts directly on the data they see in reports

• Report authors control which data is available for alerting

• Supports reports created in Report Builder or BI Development Studio (BIDS)

Create data alerts from within reports

• Intuitive Alert Rules (greater than, before/after)

• Easy to use scheduling (weekly, daily, monthly)

• Relevant data included in Alert Message

Detect important data changes

Source: Data.gov - Data.gov and the Federal Government cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from Data.gov.

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Self Service Alerting – IT Benefits

• Per site administration reduces IT burden• Fine grained authorization• Self-managed through SharePoint• IT Visibility & Control of user-defined alerts

Managed through SharePoint

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New SSRS SharePoint Integration Benefits

• SSRS SharePoint 2010 Shared Service• Hosted in SharePoint Shared Service App pool

• SSRS catalog DBs are SharePoint Service App DBs

• WCF and Claims based communication

• PowerShell Cmdlets

• Central Admin UI for all RS administration

• ULS Logging integration

• Built-in scale-out and load balancer

• Report Performance Improvements• For reports in AJAX Viewer

• Parity with Denali Native mode performance• Top SharePoint mode pain point

• Small reports used to be 2-3 times slower: Fixed

• Faster than 2008 R2 SharePoint mode ~ 30-60%

• SQL Setup option for SSRS SharePoint service

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SSRS SharePoint Integration Architecturefor SQL Server codenamed “Denali”

SSRS in Web Application

RS Add-in

SharePoint Web Front

End

SharePoint App

Server

SSRS Shared Service

Application SSRS Shared

Service Application

SharePoint Config / Content DB

Report Server Shared Service DB

Alert Designer

Alert Manager

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Self-Service Alerting – How it works

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Receiving alerts

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DEMO• Self Service Alerting


Highly Visual Design Experience

Presentation-ready at all times

Rich metadata-driven interactivity

SQL Server 2012 Power View

• Interactive Presentation turns pervasive information into persuasive information

• Deliver and collaborate through SharePoint• Full screen presentation mode for interactive boardroom

session

• Fully integrated with PowerPivot• Drive greater insight through smart and powerful querying• Zero configuration highlighting and filtering• Animated trending and comparisons

• Interactive, web-based authoring and sharing of information

• Familiar Microsoft Office design patterns• Powerful data layout with banding, callout and small

multiples visualizations

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Data Sources

PowerPivot for SharePointServer, Services, and Components

WFE

Excel Web Access

App

Excel Calculation Services

Content

SQL

Excel Web Service

SharePoint Farm

MSOLAP

TCP

HTTP

Channel

PowerPivot Web Service

PowerPivot System Service

Analysis Services in VertiPaq Mode

PowerPivot Sys Svc Application Proxy

Client

Excel Calc Services Application Proxy

c2wts

User renders aworkbook

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DEMO• PowerPivot• Power View

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SQL 2012 RC0 Shipped 11/17/11

• Multiple views

• Export live to PowerPoint

• Storyboard view

• Chart interactivity

• Canvas UI

• Print

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Introducing SQL Server AlwaysOn

• Integrated, flexible, efficient high availability for mission critical business

• High availability platform built for the future• On-Premise, Private and Public

Cloud

• Comprehensive database and instance-level protection

Multi-Database Failover

Multiple Secondaries

Active Secondaries

Integrated HA Management

AlwaysOn Availability Groupsdatabase protection

Multisite Clustering

Flexible Failover Policy

Improved Diagnostics

Built for consolidation scenarios

AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances

instance level protection

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Deployment Scenarios

Disaster Recovery Target

Read-only EnvironmentBackupStretch Cluster

Production Environment

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2

2

1

2

Primary Availability Replica

Secondary Availability Replica

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Availability Solutions

Failover Clustering

Geo-clustering or Synchronous

Database Mirroring

Log Shipping

Backup/Restore

AlwaysOn

RTO

RPO Zero Seconds Minutes Hours Days Weeks

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Climb Denali – You Can Do It! (upgrade, I mean…)

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In-Place Upgrade – Overview

• Upgrades existing installation• On same machine and platform

• Instance name remains

• Old instance is removed

• New shared components are installed

• User data and configuration is preserved

• Mostly automated process through Setup

• Existing instance is intact as long as possible

• Can upgrade to same edition or higher

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In-Place Upgrade – Matrix

SQL Server

2005 SP2

From To

SQL Server 2008

SQL Server

2000 SP4 SQL Server

2008 R2

SQL Server

2008 SP2 SQL Server

2008 R2

SQL Server

2005 SP4 SQL Server Denali

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Don’t Fall!

• CTP3 <> RTM!!!!• RC0 Available Now (http://bit.ly/s0DEsf)

• Infrastructure• NOT FOR PRODUCTION!!!!

• Must run SP2010 SP1

• Upgrade to PowerPivot v2 Excel

• Incompatible with Project Server 2010 (for now!) SSAS Cubes

• Alerts• Not intended for real-time notification

• Structured Data Feeds

• Power View• Requires PowerPivot v2

• Always On• Not click-click-OK!

http://bit.ly/s0DEsf

http://bit.ly/s0DEsf

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Engineering

Business Connectivity Services

(BCS)

Secure Store

Service

Performance Point

SQL Analysis Services

Reporting Services (SSRS)

Integrated

Excel Services

Secure Store

Service

Excel Services

Office Web Apps

(OWA)

PowerPivot

SQL 2008 R2

Enterprise

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

SQL 2008 R2

SharePoint Integrated

(BIDS for Native Mode)

Kerberos [optional]

SSRS Alerts

SQL Server 2012

Pivot

Silverlight

Power View

Power Pivot v2

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BI Solutions in SharePoint 2010/SQL 2012

Printing or exporting

Visual Navigation

Large Datasets

Small Datasets

Mapping

Pivot

SQL Reporting Services

PerformancePoint

Excel Services

Chart Web Part

PowerPivot

SharePoint list

KPI / Status Indicator

Power View

Self Service

SSRS Alerts

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Resources - General

• From Microsoft:• SQL 2012: http://

www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/future-editions.aspx

• Business Intelligence: http://www.microsoft.com/bi/

• SharePoint 2010 site: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com

• SharePoint Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/default.aspx

• BI Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bi/

• From Quest • www.quest.com

• SharePoint Community www.sharepointforall.com

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/future-editions.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/future-editions.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/bi/

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/default.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bi/

http://www.quest.com/

http://www.sharepointforall.com/

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•Questions

•Contact Me

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Thank you…

• Contact• Email [email protected]

• Blog http://www.chrismcnulty.net/blog

• Also http://www.sharepointforall.com

• Twitter: @cmcnulty2000

• LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/cmcnulty

• Upcoming:• Dec. 2011 – SPS South Florida, PSSPUG/Seattle, Gilbane Boston

• Jan. 2011 – SPS Austin TX (Business Intelligence)

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http://www.sharepointforall.com/

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