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Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2019

By : Kellyn Gorman, Allan Hirt, Dave Noderer, Mitchell Pearson, James Rowland-Jones, Dustin Ryan, Arun Sirpal, Buck Woody
Book Image

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2019

By: Kellyn Gorman, Allan Hirt, Dave Noderer, Mitchell Pearson, James Rowland-Jones, Dustin Ryan, Arun Sirpal, Buck Woody

Overview of this book

Microsoft SQL Server comes equipped with industry-leading features and the best online transaction processing capabilities. If you are looking to work with data processing and management, getting up to speed with Microsoft Server 2019 is key. Introducing SQL Server 2019 takes you through the latest features in SQL Server 2019 and their importance. You will learn to unlock faster querying speeds and understand how to leverage the new and improved security features to build robust data management solutions. Further chapters will assist you with integrating, managing, and analyzing all data, including relational, NoSQL, and unstructured big data using SQL Server 2019. Dedicated sections in the book will also demonstrate how you can use SQL Server 2019 to leverage data processing platforms, such as Apache Hadoop and Spark, and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes to control your data and efficiently monitor it. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed with all the features of Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and understand how to use them confidently to build robust data management solutions.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

11. Data Warehousing

SQL Server has been delivering industry-leading capabilities for the modern data warehouse workload for many years. Mission-critical security features built into each edition of SQL Server such as row-level security, Always Encrypted, data masking, and others ensure that your data is secure at all times. Built-in advanced analytics using R and Python allows you to operationalize your data science models in a secure and performant way. SQL Server also offers industry-leading performance based on the TPC-E and TPC-H benchmarks for 3 TB and 10 TB data warehouse workloads (https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2019/05/16/sql-server-2017-achieves-top-tpc-benchmarks-for-oltp-and-dw-on-linux-and-windows/). Because of all this, SQL Server is a clear leader and trusted platform by organizations around the globe for data warehouse workloads both on-premises and in the cloud.

Many organizations use data warehouses to process and aggregate large volumes of data...