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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)

6. SQL Server 2019 in Containers and Kubernetes

Most SQL Server deployments are achieved via traditional methods: on physical servers or virtual machines (on-premises or in the cloud). Cloud-based offerings such as Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Database Managed Instance are considered Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings and offer the ability to deploy databases and instances respectively without needing to worry about managing the underlying operating system (OS). There is now a newer option to consider for deploying SQL Server: containers.

SQL Server 2017 was the first version of SQL Server to support containers. While containers are part of SQL Server Big Data Clusters (see Chapter 9, SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters), there is more to them than just being a component of that story. This chapter will cover what containers are, why they are important, and how they have been improved in SQL Server 2019.