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SQL Server 2016
What Microsoft Say…
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“SQL Server 2016 is the biggest leap forward in Microsoft data platform
history with features that increase performance, simplify management, and
transform your data into actionable insights—all on a database that has the
least vulnerabilities of any major platform.”
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“The world’s fastest and most price-performant database for HTAP (Hybrid
Transactional and Analytical Processing) with updateable, in-memory
columnstores and advanced analytics through deep integration with R
Services.”
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“Customers can gain tremendous performance improvement by simply
upgrading to SQL Server 2016 without application changes (e.g. queries will
run up to 34x faster). In addition to leading performance benchmarks, SQL
Server 2016 also delivers top price/performance for both workloads.”
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SQL Server 2016 New Features
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About Me
 David Postlethwaite
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SQL and Oracle DBA
MCSE 2012 Data Platform
MCITP 2008, 2005
Oracle OCA
25 years IT Experience
7 years as DBA
 [email protected]
 https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpostlethwaite
 Blog: gethynellis.com
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SQL Server 2016
What Microsoft Say…
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“SQL Server 2016 is the biggest leap forward in Microsoft data platform
history with features that increase performance, simplify management, and
transform your data into actionable insights—all on a database that has the
least vulnerabilities of any major platform.”
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“The world’s fastest and most price-performant database for HTAP (Hybrid
Transactional and Analytical Processing) with updateable, in-memory
columnstores and advanced analytics through deep integration with R
Services.
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"Customers can gain tremendous performance improvement by simply
upgrading to SQL Server 2016 without application changes (e.g. queries will
run up to 34x faster). In addition to leading performance benchmarks, SQL
Server 2016 also delivers top price/performance for both workloads.“
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Specifications 13.0.xxxx
Feature
Enterprise
Standard
Express
Express with Advanced
Services
Developer
CPU DBMS
OS Maximum
Limited to lesser of 4 Limited to lesser of 1 Limited to lesser of 1 socket
OS Maximum
sockets or 24 cores socket or 4 cores
or 4 cores
CPU SSAS
OS Maximum
Limited to lesser of 4 Limited to lesser of 1 Limited to lesser of 1 socket
OS Maximum
sockets or 24 cores socket or 4 cores
or 4 cores
Memory DBMS
OS Maximum
(4TB)
128 GB
1 GB
1 GB
OS Maximum
Memory SSAS
OS Maximum
Tabular: 16 GB
MOLAP: 64 GB
N/A
N/A
OS Maximum
Memory SSRS
OS Maximum
64 GB
N/A
4 GB
OS Maximum
Maximum DB Size
524 PB
524 PB
10 GB
10 GB
524 PB
SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition free download at Visual Studio Dev Essentials
https://myprodscussu1.app.vssubscriptions.visualstudio.com/downloads?pid=2057
SSMS
supports 2008 and above
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SQL Server 2016 for Linux will be available in the middle of 2017
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Discontinued & Deprecated Features
 64 bit Only – SSMS still 32 bit
 Compatibility level 90 (2005) is discontinued
 Deprecated – Due to be removed “soon”
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Data types: text, ntext, image
sp_attach_db, sp_adduser and many other similar “sp_” procs
Mirroring – Now use “Always On Availability Groups”
BACKUP … TO TAPE
SQL Trace stored procedures, functions, and catalog views
Get into habit of ending lines with a semi colon “;”
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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144262.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143729.aspx
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Installation Changes
SSMS is now separate (web only) installation
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt238290.aspx
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Installation Improvements
Perform Volume Maintenance Tasks
Instant File Initialization
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175935.aspx
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Installation Improvements
Data Folders
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Installation Improvements
Multiple TempDB Database Files
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Tempdb Contention and File Growth
 Trace Flags 1117 and 1118 Enabled
 1118 avoids contention in tempdb
 1117 stops uneven file growth
 1117 Good for TempDB
 But not always wanted for User Databases
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Dynamic Data Masking
Enterprise and Standard
Mask production data in UAT without running obfuscation scripts
CREATE TABLE [Sales].[CustomerPII](
[CustomerID] [int] NOT NULL,
[FirstName] [dbo].[Name] NOT NULL,
[PhoneNumber] [nvarchar](25) MASKED WITH (FUNCTION = 'default()') NULL,
[EmailAddress] [nvarchar](50) MASKED WITH (FUNCTION = 'email()') NULL,
[LastName] [dbo].[Name] MASKED WITH (FUNCTION='partial(2,"XXXX",2)') NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GRANT UNMASK TO SalesPersons
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Row Level Security
Enterprise and Standard
 Control access to rows in a table based on the characteristics of the
user (e.g. group membership or execution context).
 The access restriction logic is located in the database rather than
application.
 The database applies the access restrictions every time that data is
viewed or updated. From anywhere.
 Makes security more reliable and robust by reducing the surface
area of your security system.
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ALTER SECURITY POLICY Security.customerPolicy
ALTER FILTER PREDICATE Security.customerAccess(TerritoryID) ON Sales.CustomerPII,
ALTER BLOCK PREDICATE Security.customerAccess(TerritoryID) ON Sales.CustomerPII
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Always Encrypted
Enterprise Only 
Encrypt columns using a certificate
CREATE TABLE [Sales].[CustomerPII](
[CreditCardNumber] [nvarchar](25) COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN2 ENCRYPTED WITH
(COLUMN_ENCRYPTION_KEY = [CEK_Auto1], ENCRYPTION_TYPE = Deterministic, ALGORITHM =
'AEAD_AES_256_CBC_HMAC_SHA_256') NULL,
) ON [PRIMARY]
Unencrypted values can only be seen from computer with the certificate installed
Need extra parameter in connection string column encryption setting=enabled
Currently Only Supported with ADO.NET 4.6 and ODBC 13.1
Must use a parametrised query to update the data
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Temporal Tables
Enterprise and Standard
 System-versioned Tables
 Allow SQL to automatically keep history of the data in a table
 Typical uses
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Audit. With temporal tables you can find out what values a specific entity has had over its
entire lifetime.
Slowly changing dimensions. A system-versioned table exactly behaves like a dimension
with type 2 changing behavior for all of its columns.
Repair record-level corruptions. Think of it as a sort of back-up mechanism on a single
table. Accidentally deleted a record? Retrieve it from the history table and insert it back into
the main table.
WITH (SYSTEM_VERSIONING = ON (HISTORY_TABLE = [Person].[Person_History]));
 Requires two extra columns for start and end date of the row
 Not a replacement for Change Data Capture
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Stretch Database
Enterprise and Standard
 Take advantage of “cheap” Azure storage
 Split a table in two
Place “old” data in a database in Azure
Leave current data “on premises”
 Query knows if data is in current table or archive table and returns
merged results seamlessly
 SQL will move data to Azure when it becomes “old”
 Lots of limitations
 Not as cheap as it looks (minimum of €700/month)
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Query Store
Enterprise and Standard
 Historical Query Plans
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Collects Information on Query Plans for a database over Time
Search for problematic or regressed queries
Set FORCE PLAN policies to force a query to use an old better execution plan
Identify expensive queries by CPU, memory I/O etc.
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Live Query Statistics
Enterprise and Standard
Watch Query Stats run in real time
See Complex queries being made
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SSMS Plan Comparison Tool Enterprise and Standard
Save execution plans to disk
Then compare current plan to a saved file
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T-SQL Enhancements
Enterprise and Standard
 Drop If Exists
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Old Way
IF EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[Table1]') AND [type]
IN (N'U'))
DROP TABLE [dbo].[Table1];
AGGREGATE
SCHEMA USER
PROCEDURE
DEFAULT
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS [Person].[CountryRegion];
DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS trg_PersonAddress;
TABLE
SECURITY POLICY
ASSEMBLY
VIEW
ALTER TABLE t1 DROP CONSTRAINT IF EXISTS t1_column1_pk;
ALTER TABLE t1 DROP COLUMN IF EXISTS ID;
ROLE
FUNCTION
TRIGGER
SEQUENCE
VIEW
INDEX
RULE
TYPE
DATABASE
SYNONYM
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New Way
NO “CREATE or REPLACE” function… yet
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T-SQL Enhancements
Enterprise and Standard
 TRUNCATE TABLE with PARTITION
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TRUNCATE TABLE dbo.myTable WITH (PARTITIONS (1,5 TO 8));
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T-SQL Enhancements
 Online DDL changes
ALTER TABLE dbo.Table1
ALTER COLUMN x VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL
WITH (ONLINE = ON);
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Enterprise Only 
T-SQL Enhancements
Enterprise and Standard
 Changes to CHECKDB
 Improvements to make it faster
 Check Scanner uses lock free design
 Extended Logical Checks Removed from default
 MAXDOP option
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T-SQL Enhancements
Enterprise and Standard
 Compress and DeCompress
 Gzip compression
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INSERT INTO Table1 (name,info) VALUES ('David',COMPRESS('SQL Server 2016 is
here'));
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SELECT name, CAST(DECOMPRESS(info) AS VARCHAR(MAX)) 'DECOMPRESSED-Value'
FROM Table1;
GO
 Reduce table size
 Reduce bandwidth between database and application
 Not the same as Page and Row Compression
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Column Store Index
Enterprise Only 
 Introduced in SQL 2012
 Major Improvements in SQL 2016
 A clustered columnstore index can have one or more
nonclustered (B-tree) indexes
 In-memory tables can have columnstore index
 Support for primary keys and foreign keys
 compression delay option
 Microsoft claim…
 100x query performance on large data tables
 10x data compression
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Hekaton (In Memory OLTP)
Enterprise Only 
 Introduced with SQL Server 2014
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Gives in-memory tables
No Locking / blocking in the table
 SQL 2016 Improvements
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Maximum size from 250MB to 2GB
FileStream data
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
Foreign Keys
Check Constraints
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Up to 100x faster than traditional tables
Combine with Column Store index for supercharged performance
Requires lots of Memory !
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WITH ( MEMORY_OPTIMIZED = ON , DURABILITY = SCHEMA_AND_DATA )
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PolyBase
PolyBase compute node
PolyBase head node
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Enterprise and Standard*
Standard and Enterprise
Enterprise Only
R
Enterprise and Standard*
 Primary analysis language for the majority of data scientists and
statisticians
 R now integrated into SQL Server
Basic R integration
Advanced R Integration
R Server
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All Editions
Enterprise Only
Enterprise Only
JSON Support
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DECLARE @json NVARCHAR(4000)
SET @json =
N'{
"info":{
"type":1,
"address":{
"town":"Bristol",
"county":"Avon",
"country":"England"
},
"tags":["Sport", "Water polo"]
},
"type":"Basic"
}'
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-- Using JSON_VALUE
SELECT
JSON_VALUE(@json,
JSON_VALUE(@json,
JSON_VALUE(@json,
JSON_VALUE(@json,
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function
'$.type') a,
'$.info.type') b,
'$.info.address.town') c,
'$.info.tags[0]') d
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Enterprise and Standard
Time for a Demo
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Feature Comparison
 What’s in only in Enterprise or Standard
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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993.aspx
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Example Databases and Scripts
 AdventureWorks 2016 CTP3
 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49502
 Wide World Importers
 https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/4391/installing-new-sqlserver-sample-databases-wideworldimporters/
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Any Questions
 Conclusion
 Hopefully this has given you a head start when you start looking at
SQL Server 2016
 Q&A
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 Blog: gethynellis.com
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