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

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

6. Query Store
The flight data recorder for your database

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

8. Temporal tables
Keep track of data changes at table level

9. JSON support
Like XML support, but better

10. 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

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

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

13. Hey, I just met you, so demo maybe

14. 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

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

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

17. Machine learning
R and Python are first-class ML languages

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

19. 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

20. 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

21. It’s already in Azure SQL Database