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2. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com Agenda New Features in SQL Server 2016  About me  General Enhancements  In-memory OLTP Enhancements  Always Encrypted  Query Store and Live Query Statistics  Row-Level Security  Stretch Database  AlwaysOn Enhancements

3. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com Agenda (cont) New Features in SQL Server 2016  PolyBase  JSON Support  TempDB enhancements  References

4. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com Gareth Swanepoel From South Africa originally Been in IT for 25+ years Was first a sysadmin, then a DBA Sr. Data Platform & BI Consultant with Pragmatic Works Author - SQL 2012 Pro Admin Speaker – SQL User Groups, SQL Saturdays, SQL PASS Summit, webinars eMail : GarethS@pragmaticworks.comGarethS@pragmaticworks.com Twitter : @GarethSwan Website : www.MyGareth.comwww.MyGareth.com

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6. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com General Enhancements  Advanced Analytics (RRE integration)  Data Exploration and Predictive Modeling with R over SQL Server data  Operationalizing your R code using T-SQL  Transactional replication from SQL Server to Azure SQL DB  Per Session Wait Statistics  sys.dm_exec_session_wait_stats (instance level – sys.dm_os_wait_stats)  Instant File Initialisation configuration during initial setup  Enhanced backup to Azure

7. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com In-memory OLTP Enhancements Feature/LimitSQL Server 2014SQL Server 2016 Maximum size of durable table256 GB2 TB LOB (varbinary(max), [n]varchar(max))Not supportedSupported* Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)Not supportedSupported Offline Checkpoint Threads11 per container ALTER PROCEDURE / sp_recompileNot supportedSupported (fully online) Nested native procedure callsNot supportedSupported Natively-compiled scalar UDFsNot supportedSupported ALTER TABLE Not supported Not supported (DROP / re-CREATE) Partially supported (offline – details below) DML triggersNot supported Partially supported (AFTER, natively compiled) Indexes on NULLable columnsNot supportedSupported Non-BIN2 collations in index key columnsNot supportedSupported Non-Latin codepages for [var]char columnsNot supportedSupported Non-BIN2 comparison / sorting in native modulesNot supportedSupported Foreign KeysNot supportedSupported Check/Unique ConstraintsNot supportedSupported ParallelismNot supportedSupported OUTER JOIN, OR, NOT, UNION [ALL], DISTINCT, EXISTS, INNot supportedSupported Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) (Means better Entity Framework support.) Not supportedSupported SSMS Table DesignerNot supportedSupported

8. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com Always Encrypted  Protects data at rest and in motion  Encryption key resides with the application  Encryption and Decryption are transparent & happen on application side  Always Encrypted Driver -.NET Framework 4.6

9. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com Always Encrypted  Encryption is at the column level, rather than at the database level  Feature-based restrictions:  Temporal tables  Triggers are partially supported  Full-text search  Replication  Change Data Capture  In-memory OLTP  Stretch database

10. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com  Flight data recorder (black box) for your database  Query store retains multiple execution plans per query  Collects query text along with all relevant properties  Two stores:  Plan store – persisting execution plan information AND metrics  Runtime statistics store – persisting the statistics information  Catalog views: sys.query_store_plan, sys.query_store_query, sys.query_store_query_text Query Store

11. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com  Easily find & fix plan regression  Pinpoint the most expensive queries  Minimise SQL Server upgrade risks  Analyse workload patterns With query store, you can ….

12. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com  Regressed Queries  Overall Resource Consumption  Top Resource Consuming Queries  Tracked Queries Query Store Views

13. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com Regressed Queries

14. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com Top Resource Consumers

15. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com Live Query Statistics  Include Live Query Statistics

16. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com Live Query Plan

17. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com Activity Monitor

18. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com Row-Level Security  Row level access control  Based on user’s group membership or execution context  Restriction logic located at the DB tier rather than at the app tier  Optimizer automatically applies predicate function to queries  Security Predicates:  Filter  Block  Steps:  Create predicate function  Create security policy to bind function to table(s)

19. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com Stretch Database  Leverages Azure to store and query archive data  Archives data transparently and securely  Reduced cost, performance gains against current (on-premises) data  Can join across local and remote data  User code will still point to SQL on-premises instance  Run the Stretch Database Advisor EXEC sys.sp_configure N'remote data archive', '1';

20. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com Stretch Database

21. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com Stretch DB Limitations (CTP 3.0)  Memory-optimized and replicated tables  Tables that contain FILESTREAM data, use Change Tracking or Change Data Capture  Data types such as timestamp, sql_variant, XML, geography or columns that are Always Encrypted  Check, default, or foreign key constraints that reference the table  XML, full-text, spatial, clustered columnstore indexes and indexed views  UPDATE or DELETE statements, CREATE INDEX or ALTER INDEX operations  Limitations: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt605114.aspxhttps://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt605114.aspx

22. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com  Distributed Transaction Coordinator support  Load Balancing for Readable Secondaries  Additional synchronous failover targets – up to 3  Optional setting to fail over based on database failure  Group Managed Service Accounts are fully supported  Improved log transport performance AlwaysOn Enhancements

23. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com PolyBase  Introduced in PDW v2  Use T-SQL to access data in Hadoop  Configuration:  Install PolyBase  Choose Hadoop or Azure using sp_configure  Create external data source and file format in SQL  Create external table to reference the data HDFS SQL 2016 Hadoop Results7 2 Map job 5 HDFS blocks DB 3 4 6 SQL1 MapReduce

24. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com JSON Support  JSON - JavaScript Object Notation.  JSON support is one of the highest ranked requests by customers.  JSON is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML.  JSON is used in a majority of Web APIs and is growing significantly.  CTP2 – FOR JSON [PATH | AUTO]  CTP3 – OPENJSON, IsJSON ( ), JSON_Value ()

25. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com TempDB Enhancements  Trace Flags 1117 & 1118 not required  Setup adds TempDB files = CPU count or 8, whichever is lower  Default initial size is 8MB and the default autogrowth is 64MB  Multiple volumes for TempDB files  Configure TempDB during initial setup

26. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com  Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Product Page: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/sql-server-2016/  Always Encrypted: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt163865.aspx  Tim Radney - Introduction to Stretch Database: http://sqlperformance.com/2015/08/sql-server-2016/intro-stretch-database  SQL Server Query: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn817826.aspx https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Data-Exposed/Query-Store-in-SQL-Server- 2016https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Data-Exposed/Query-Store-in-SQL-Server- 2016 References

27. UNIQUE AND NOT DULLwww.MyGareth.com  Row-Level Security: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn765131.aspx  Stretch Database: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn935011.aspx  PolyBase in SQL Server 2016: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Data-Exposed/PolyBase-in-SQL-Server-2016  Aaron Bertrand - SQL Server 2016 Advanced JSON Techniques: https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/4073/sql-server-2016-advanced-json- techniques--part-1/https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/4073/sql-server-2016-advanced-json- techniques--part-1/  Klaus Aschenbrenner - TempDB Changes in SQL Server 2016: http://www.sqlpassion.at/archive/2015/11/09/tempdb-changes-in-sql-server-2016/ References

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