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SQL Server 2016 Developer's Guide

By : Miloš Radivojević, Dejan Sarka, William Durkin
Book Image

SQL Server 2016 Developer's Guide

By: Miloš Radivojević, Dejan Sarka, William Durkin

Overview of this book

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is considered the biggest leap in the data platform history of the Microsoft, in the ongoing era of Big Data and data science. This book introduces you to the new features of SQL Server 2016 that will open a completely new set of possibilities for you as a developer. It prepares you for the more advanced topics by starting with a quick introduction to SQL Server 2016's new features and a recapitulation of the possibilities you may have already explored with previous versions of SQL Server. The next part introduces you to small delights in the Transact-SQL language and then switches to a completely new technology inside SQL Server - JSON support. We also take a look at the Stretch database, security enhancements, and temporal tables. The last chapters concentrate on implementing advanced topics, including Query Store, column store indexes, and In-Memory OLTP. You will finally be introduced to R and learn how to use the R language with Transact-SQL for data exploration and analysis. By the end of this book, you will have the required information to design efficient, high-performance database applications without any hassle.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
SQL Server 2016 Developer's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
12
In-Memory OLTP Improvements in SQL Server 2016

Summary


In this chapter, we have taken a look at the new additions in the developer toolset for SQL Server 2016. There have been some long-awaited improvements made, especially the separation of SQL Server Management Studio from the release cycle of SQL Server itself. Many developers are hoping that the release velocity of SSMS will remain as high as it has been in the months since the SQL Server 2016 release. Almost monthly releases mean we all have the chance to get extra features and bug fixes much more quickly than in previous years.

Some of the feature additions to SSMS are quite powerful and will allow us as developers to be more efficient. Live Query Statistics provide us with excellent insights into how our queries are actually processed, removing parts of the "guessing game" when trying to refactor or tune our queries.

For SQL Server developers, there are two new development environments for developing the R code. Of course, one of them, the RStudio IDE is well-known among R developers...