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What's New in SQL Server 2012

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What's New in SQL Server 2012

Overview of this book

Microsoft SQL Server has been part of the enterprise database landscape since SQL Server 7 arrived in 1998 and has evolved into the relational and BI platform of choice by businesses around the globe. The performance and full feature set of SQL Server has been widely recognized by the business community and it is viewed as a powerful weapon in their database and business intelligence arsenal. SQL Server brings numerous benefits to all businesses, central to which is a thorough understanding of the technology, both current and new.This is the book both DBAs and developers always wanted to buy but could never find in the bookstore. This is a SQL Server book that contains only the new features introduced in SQL Server 2012.This book will give you a competitive advantage by helping you to quickly learn and understand the new features of SQL Server 2012. Most readers will already have an established knowledge of SQL Server and will want to update their 2008/2008R2 knowledge swiftly with least pain.This book takes you through all of the new features of SQL Server 2012, from installing core database services and features, to the new administration and updated Transact-SQL functions. You will discover the new Analysis Services features, introduce data alerts and reporting features and explore the new enhancements to Integration Services. In addition you will learn how to automate, cleanse and transform critical business data with DQS and world-class enterprise level availability features.Finally, you will venture into simulating real-world database loads using Distributed Replay and complete your journey with a look at the new SQL Server cloud services and the new Hadoop big data platform.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
What's New in SQL Server 2012
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgment
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Installing SQL Server 2012
Index

Coupling rules to data: the Data Quality Project


We have now created a basic knowledge base. This knowledge base contains two rules: one to check that the field length for a customer's name is greater than or equal to five characters; the other to check for loan amounts less than $10,000. However, these rules are in isolation and are not attached in any way to ou operational data set.

The next step is to link up the rules with the data we want them to work on. This is achieved by creating a new Data Quality Project:

Click on the New Data Quality Project button.

Enter a name for the new Data Quality Project, and select the knowledge base created earlier, as shown in te following screenshot:

As we can see, the knowledge base contains the Customer Name and Loan Amount domains we created, along with the rules we defined. Now, click on the Next button and select the Test database, where our operational data is stored. Then select the table to be cleansed. In this case our table is called Customer...