STANDARD EDITION USEFUL FEATURES FOR THE REST OF US?

No, you can’t have Enterprise features

AGENDA Features in 2014 Standard Edition – Database Engine & Tooling Administration Performance Productivity Security High Availability Features in 2016 Standard Edition – Database Engine & Tooling Administration Performance Productivity Security High Availability Development Tips

SQL SERVER 2014 Edition comparison:

2014 : ADMINISTRATION 128 GB RAM support (up from 64 GB) Managed backup to Azure Backup to URL (Azure blob) Data files in Windows Azure (blob)

2014 : PERFORMANCE New cardinality estimator – better plans based on better guesses Careful, there may be regressions Blog post (Joe Sack) : A First Look at the New SQL Server Cardinality EstimatorA First Look at the New SQL Server Cardinality Estimator Parallel SELECT INTO tempdb eager write fix – less likely to waste I/O Buffer pool extension – treat a local SSD like a page file Blog post (Klaus Aschenbrenner) : Buffer Pool Extensions in SQL Server 2014Buffer Pool Extensions in SQL Server 2014 Note: single-threaded I/O queue; only beneficial with RAM deficiency & super slow SAN Delayed durability – trade resiliency for faster performance Blog post (Melissa Connors) : Delayed Durability while Purging DataDelayed Durability while Purging Data

2014 : PRODUCTIVITY Inline index declaration – for standard indexes sys.dm_exec_query_profiles – shows plan operator progress Only populated for queries running with showplan on 2014 SSMS can’t *display* the data in motion, but 2016 can

2014 : SECURITY New server permissions: CONNECT ANY DATABASE IMPERSONATE ANY LOGIN SELECT ALL USER SECURABLES Backup Encryption Blog post : SQL Server 2014 : Native Backup EncryptionSQL Server 2014 : Native Backup Encryption

SQL SERVER 2016 Edition comparisons should appear here soon: Right now, this page just links to the marketing site

2016 : ADMINISTRATION Setup : multiple tempdb data files, instant file initialization, better data/log defaults.NET 3.5 dependency is gone SSMS : check for updates, independent release cycle,.NET 3.5 requirement gone

SEPARATE SSMS

INSTANT FILE INITIALIZATION

MORE SENSIBLE TEMPDB

2016 : ADMINISTRATION Wider indexes – 32 columns (up from 16), 1,700 bytes (up from 900) More incoming foreign keys (10,000! up from 253) Index usage stats are now more persistent MAXDOP now supported for several DBCC check commands Many trace flag / server level behaviors can now be implemented at database level DATABASE SCOPED CONFIGURATION – MAXDOP, 4136, 4199, legacy CE

2016 : ADMINISTRATION Striped (block blob, up to 12.8 TB) and file-snapshot backups to Azure blob Managed backup now uses block blob, and supports System databases Databases in simple recovery Automatic and custom schedules Stretch database – offload storage and queries against older data Eight new SERVERPROPERTY arguments: InstanceDefaultDataPath, InstanceDefaultLogPath, ProductBuild, ProductBuildType, ProductMajorVersion, ProductMinorVersion, ProductUpdateLevel, ProductUpdateReference

2016 : PERFORMANCE Automatic changes: Trace flags 610, 1117, 1118, 2371, 4136, 4199 now on by default 4199 only for databases in 130 compat mode ALTER DATABASE can control 1117 / 1118 for databases other than tempdb Another round of cardinality estimator fixes - TF9481 can still disable newest fixes Improvements in metadata latching in tempdb Batch mode operations (even for row store tables) Parallel INSERT INTO … SELECT FROM

2016 : PERFORMANCE New extended events to monitor / troubleshoot backup / restore / recovery Blog post : T-SQL Tuesday #67 : New Backup and Restore Extended EventsT-SQL Tuesday #67 : New Backup and Restore Extended Events New hints: MIN_GRANT_REQUEST/MAX_GRANT_REQUEST, NO_PERFORMANCE_SPOOL Query store – probably Enterprise only, but no official word yet Blog post (Ben Nevarez) : The SQL Server Query StoreThe SQL Server Query Store

2016 : PRODUCTIVITY JSON support Blog post : SQL Server 2016 : JSON SupportSQL Server 2016 : JSON Support More inline index support (filtered, CCI/NCCI) Temporal tables R support (even in Express!) PolyBase – query Hadoop / unstructured Azure blob using T-SQL New T-SQL STRING_SPLIT() / STRING_ESCAPE() COMPRESS() / DECOMPRESS() AT TIME ZONE DATEDIFF_BIG() SESSION_CONTEXT()

2016 : PRODUCTIVITY Live query stats (sys.dm_exec_query_profiles) works in SSMS & Plan Explorer New diagnostic columns in sys.dm_exec_query_stats last_dop, max_dop, last_grant_kb, total_grant_kb, etc. New DMV for session-level wait stats - sys.dm_exec_session_wait_stats New DMF to replace DBCC INPUTBUFFER() - sys.dm_exec_input_buffer New DMV for function performance stats – sys.dm_exec_function_stats UTF-8 support (bulk) New DROP IF EXISTS syntax (but no CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)

2016 : PRODUCTIVITY DEMO

2016 : SECURITY Row-level security Dynamic data masking Always encrypted HASHBYTES – 8K limit removed

2016 : HIGH AVAILABILITY Basic Availability Groups! (APPLAUSE!) Lots of limitations: single database, no listener support, no readable secondaries Blog post : SQL Server 2016 : Availability Group EnhancementsSQL Server 2016 : Availability Group Enhancements Transactional replication to Azure

You might not need Enterprise features Enterprise features

DEVELOPMENT TIPS Try to develop on Standard Edition if that’s your target If you develop on Enterprise or Developer Edition: Check sys.dm_db_persisted_sku_features Test deploying to Standard Edition often Connect items for making Developer act like Standard: #496380, #331297, #381744, #507277, # #496380#331297#381744#507277# Try to match production hardware – you can fool SQL Server: DBCC OPTIMIZER_WHATIF, SETCPUWEIGHT, SETIOWEIGHT Try to match production data – you can fool SQL Server: Stats-only (clone) database

RESOURCES Simon Sabin assembled links to all the Data Driven Deep Dive videos (see March 14): Keep up with developments throughout the 2016 RC phase: SQL Server 2016 Resources : SQL Server 2014 Resources :

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