What are the features of SQL Server 2016?
SQL Server 2016 Database Engine: New Features and Enhancements
- Stretch Database.
- Basic Availability Groups.
- Distributed Availability Groups.
- Query Store.
- Live Query Statistics.
- In-Memory OLTP.
- Changes in SQL Server Tools.
- Changes to TempDB.
What are the enhanced features in SQL Server 2016?
SQL Server 2016 gets closer than ever to delivering this with significant enhancements to In-memory OLTP, in-memory analytics and improvements to Analysis services.
- In-memory OLTP.
- In-memory analytics.
- Analysis Services.
- Multi-dimensional mode.
- Tabular mode.
- TempDB.
- Trace flags for improved performance.
- The Query Store.
What is the advantage of SQL Server 2016?
Unparalleled level of data security. With SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database, your database data remains encrypted at all times; at rest, during computation, and while processing queries. This is in addition to row-level security and new dynamic data-masking capabilities built-in.
What are the features of Microsoft SQL Server?
SQL Server 2019 features
- Intelligence across all your data. Break down data silos.
- Choice of language and platform. Run SQL Server anywhere.
- Industry-leading performance. #1 in performance.
- Most secured data platform. Fewest vulnerabilities for nine years.
- Unparalleled high availability.
- End-to-end mobile BI.
- SQL Server on Azure.
What is the difference between SQL Server 2016 and 2017?
SQL Server 2017 will be fully supported for about 15 months longer than SQL Server 2016. Microsoft has a page with many resources about the end of support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2. The Mainstream and Extended Support end dates for all recent versions of SQL Server are shown in Table 1.
What is difference between SQL Server 2014 and SQL Server 2016?
On SQL Server 2016, the execution time of query was much quicker in single-threaded execution when compared with SQL Server 2014, even in multi-threaded execution. The key reason was another performance optimization known as aggregate pushdown that was added to SQL Server 2016.