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What’s new in SQL Server 2017? Randolph West Data Platform MVP BornSQL.ca r@ndolph.ca What’s new in SQL Server 2017?

Ok, but what’s new in SQL Server 2016?

Query Store The flight data recorder for your database

Security features Always Encrypted ✅ Dynamic Data Masking 🚫 Row Level Security 🤫

Temporal tables Keep track of data changes at table level

JSON support Like XML support, but better

In-memory improvements Making it actually useful: 2 TB max size ALTER TABLE / ALTER PROCEDURE / JOIN / UNION / DISTINCT / unique and foreign key constraints Supports blobs Supports TDE and other security Better collation options (not just BIN2) Parallel plans

Cool, so what’s new in SQL Server 2017?

Multi-platform support Microsoft Windows Ubuntu Linux SUSE Enterprise Linux Red Hat Linux Docker containers: Windows macOS Linux

Hey, I just met you, so demo maybe

Resumable online index rebuilds Shorter maintenance windows (max duration) Survives restarts Supports MAXDOP Supports log truncation Think of it as the ease of index defragmentation with the benefits of index rebuilds

Clusterless availability groups Readable secondaries? Try read-scale AGs. Migrate from Windows to Linux with no downtime.

Graph database Edges and nodes, oh my Many-to-many connections Examples include social media

Machine learning R and Python are first-class ML languages

Automatic database tuning In which the Query Store is used to force a plan

A very basic introduction* to joins - nested loop (small plus large data set) - merge (must be sorted, should be similar size) - hash (unsorted, for larger sets, lots of memory) * This is the one-minute version of a detailed topic and experts in the room will cringe at my oversimplification

Adaptive query processing batch mode adaptive joins memory grant feedback interleaved multi-line table-valued functions Requires a Columnstore index, but you can make an empty one and join to it, to get all the benefits

It’s already in Azure SQL Database