All Edition  

 will provide Mission Critical Confidence with greater uptime, blazing-fast performance and enhanced security features for mission critical workloads; Breakthrough Insight with managed self-service data exploration and stunning interactive data visualizations capabilities; Cloud On Your Own Terms by enabling the creation and extension of solutions across on-premises and public cloud. SQL Server 2012 will be available in three main editions:

 




Advanced high availability with AlwaysOn
High performance data warehousing with ColumnStore
Maximum virtualization (with Software Assurance)
Inclusive of Business Intelligence edition's capabilities



Rapid data discovery with Power View
Corporate and scalable reporting and analytics
Data Quality Services and Master Data Services
Inclusive of the Standard edition's capabilities