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What is the main differences between sql server 2008 and sql server 2012?

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Question added by Mahmoud AbdelBadei , IT Department Official , Shoaa Alkhobar
Date Posted: 2014/05/07
Samer Haterm
by Samer Haterm , Development Analyst , SyrianSoft, Damuscus.Ne

There is money put I've seen the most value New Analytic Functions like FIRST_VALUE LAST_VALUE

add ORDER BY in the OVER for aggregate functios Like SUM AVG

CONCATE,FORMAT and PARSE where added in sqlserver2012 which were not present in sqlserver2008.

Sandhya Binoy
by Sandhya Binoy , Software Professional , Karrox technologies

1)Sequence is not avaiable in SQL server2008.Sequence is included in SQL Server2012.

Sequence is a user defined object that generates sequence of the number.

2)The maximum number of concurrent connections to SQL Server2008 is32767.

SQL Server2012 has unlimited number of concurrent connections.

3)SQL Server2008 uses27bit precision for calculations.

Sql server2012 uses48 bit precision for calculations.

4)TRY_CONVERT() and FORMAT() functions are included in SQL server2012

But not available in SQL server2008.

 

 

karim kamel
by karim kamel , Developer Support Engineer , Microsoft

SQL Server2008

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Sql Server2012

 

In Addition with SQL server2008, Web Development and Business Intelligence Enhanced with business intelligence features and Excel PowerPivot by adding more drill and KPI’s.

 

 

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