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Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 is released on the 4 September 2012, and this is released after the released of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and this is the 6th release of Windows server. In the new release, the Microsoft developer team upgraded/enhance the features and added many new features that are not available in the previous version of Windows Server 2008 R2 also the new version is with good IP addresses management and performance speed of clients. This version is released after the release of operating system 8.1. Windows Server 2012 R2 major focus is on cloud computing and then you can have control on about each and everything like you can upload any file from your computer to server. The Windows Server 2012 R2 file is available in ISO format and it is available in multiple languages that are Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Italian and Russian.

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As this is developed by Microsoft team so that they have well-organized documentation and tutorial courses to learn what is the right way to use this. You can also download the latest release of Microsoft Windows Server from our website that is Windows Server 2016. We will provide you an ISO file so you can download the ISO file on your system and you can burn this file into your system as well you can burn this file on your USB drive and you can run Windows Server setup where you want to install it also. Microsoft Server 2012 front end is same as Windows 8. If you used a Windows 8 then you love to use the Windows Server 2012.

The Microsoft windows server has an interactive user interface. The Microsoft also releases the documentation notes of the new updated release. There are a lot of online tutorials available for the users to learn more about the windows server 2012 R2.

Features

  • User interface: The Microsoft uses the requirement engineering technique to make the server easy to understand so for that they make the user interface to that handles about each and everything. Windows Server 2012 r2 has the same look like Windows 8 with the desktop view and windows view. Windows Server 2012 r2 operator has the option to switch between the core server and server GUI interface.
  • Internet Protocol address management: IP address management is occurring for the domains registered on the server.
  • Hyper-V: The interesting features are added which is hyper-v for viewing the network, connectivity with cloud computing, and cloud backup etc.
  • Windows task manager: The Windows task manager get upgraded with the new interface and includes the hidden process. Shows the applications by default. You can view each and everything like CPU usage, network usage, storage, disk space, ram space available, WiFi speed graph and other features are added.
  • SQL Server setup installation.
  • Also Analytics Platform System.
  • Advanced Threat Analytics.
  • Also Cloud Platform Roadmap.

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The AdventureWorks databases are sample databases that were originally published by Microsoft to show how to design a SQL Server database using SQL Server 2008. AdventureWorks is the OLTP sample, and AdventureWorksDW is the data warehouse sample.

Database design has progressed since AdventureWorks was first published. For a sample database leveraging more recent features of SQL Server, see WideWorldImporters.

Note that AdventureWorks has not seen any significant changes since the 2012 version. The only differences between the various versions of AdventureWorks are the name of the database and the database compatibility level. To install the AdventureWorks databases with the database compatibility level of your SQL Server instance, you can install from a version-specific backup file or from an install script.

Prerequisites

Filestream must be installed in your SQL Server instance.

Install from a script

The install scripts create the sample database to have the database compatibility of your current version of SQL Server. Each script generates the version-specific information based on your current instance of SQL Server. This means you can use either the AdventureWorks or AdventureWorksDW install script on any version of SQL Server including CTPs, SPs, and interim releases.

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Install notes

When installing from a script, the default database name is AdventureWorks or AdventureWorksDW. If you want the version added to the name, edit the database name at the beginning of the script.

The oltp script drops an existing AdventureWorks database, and the data warehouse script drops an existing AdventureWorksDW. If you don't want that to happen, you can update the $(DatabaseName) in the script to a different name, for example AdventureWorks-new.

To install AdventureWorks

  1. Copy the GitHub data files and scripts for AdventureWorks to the C:SamplesAdventureWorks folder on your local client.
  2. Or, download AdventureWorks-oltp-install-script.zip and extract the zip file to the C:SamplesAdventureWorks folder.
  3. Open C:SamplesAdventureWorksinstawdb.sql in SQL Server Management Studio and follow the instructions at the top of the file.

To install AdventureWorksDW

  1. Copy the GitHub data files and scripts for AdventureWorksDW to the C:SamplesAdventureWorksDW folder on your local client.
  2. Or, download AdventureWorksDW-data-warehouse-install-script.zip and extract the zip file to the C:SamplesAdventureWorksDW folder.
  3. Open C:SamplesAdventureWorksDWinstawdbdw.sql in SQL Server Management Studio and follow the instructions at the top of the file.

Install from a backup

Download backup files from AdventureWorks samples databases on GitHub.

You can install AdventureWorks or AdventureWorksDW by restoring a backup file. The backup files are version-specific. You can restore each backup to its respective version of SQL Server, or a later version.

For example, you can restore AdventureWorks2016 to SQL Server (starting with 2016). Regardless of whether AdventureWorks2016 is restored to SQL Server 2016, 2017, or a later version, the restored database has the database compatibility level of SQL Server 2016.

To restore a database backup

  1. Locate the Backup folder for your SQL Server instance. The default path for 64-bit SQL Server 2016 is C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL13.MSSQLSERVERMSSQLBackup. The MSSQL value is MSSQL14 for SQL Server 2017, MSSQL13 for SQL Server 2016, MSSQL12 for SQL Server 2014, MSSQL11 for SQL Server 2012, and MSSQL10 for SQL Server 2008R2.
  2. Download the .bak file from AdventureWorks release and save it to the Backup folder for your SQL Server instance.
  3. Open SQL Server Management Studio and connect to your SQL Server instance.
  4. Restore the database using the SQL Server Management Studio user interface. For more information, see Restore a database backup using SSMS.
  5. Or, run the RESTORE DATABASE command in a new query Window.On the Standard toolbar, click the New Query button.
  6. Execute the following code in the query window. Note, the file paths in the scripts are the default paths. You may need to update the paths in the scripts to match your environment.

Example T-SQL RESTORE DATABASE command

This example restores AdventureWorksDW2016 to SQL Server 2016. Note, the file paths are the default paths. If you use this example, you might need to update the paths in the scripts to match your environment.