Contained Database Partially Contained Database User Defined Server Level Role Support for 15,000 Partitions Columnstore Index Online Index Create, Rebuild, and Drop Option for VARCHAR(MAX), NVARCHAR(MAX) and VARBINARY(MAX) columns IntelliSence Feature Enhancements BI Semantic Model Sequence Object Distributed Replay Power View SQL Azure Support Big data support Reference :- http://www.mytechmantra.com/LearnSQLServer/New-Features-SQL-Server-2012-DBA.html http://mcpmag.com/articles/2012/03/14/top-12-features-of-sql-server-2012.aspx
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