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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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Our Sponsors
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About Me
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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
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 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.”
“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.”
“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 Limited to lesser of 1
sockets or 24 cores 1 socket or 4 cores socket or 4 cores
OS Maximum
CPU SSAS
OS Maximum
Limited to lesser of 4 Limited to lesser of Limited to lesser of 1
sockets or 24 cores 1 socket or 4 cores socket or 4 cores
OS Maximum
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
SP1 Update: Most “enterprise features” now available in all editions.
SQL
. Server 2016 for Linux (vNext) in preview. Release 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
SP1: New DMV columns
Instant File Initialisation
SELECT
instant_file_initialization_enabled
FROM sys.dm_server_services;
Lock Pages in Memory
SELECT sql_memory_model,
sql_memory_model_desc
FROM sys.dm_os_sys_info
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
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1118 avoids contention in tempdb
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1117 stops uneven file growth
1117 Good for TempDB
But not always wanted for User Databases
 SP1 Update
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Windows Error Log reports uneven tempdb files
Date
Log
04/01/2017 11:58:20
SQL Server (Current - 04/01/2017 11:57:00)
The tempdb database data files are not configured with the same initial size and autogrowth settings. To reduce
potential allocation contention, the initial size and autogrowth of the files should be same.
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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.And Standard with SP1
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. JDBC 6.0, 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 €1500/month)
 => aimed at tables with billions of rows
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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 Plans 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
 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'))
AGGREGATE
SCHEMA USER
DROP TABLE [dbo].[Table1];
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New Way
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS [Person].[CountryRegion];
DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS trg_PersonAddress;
ALTER TABLE t1 DROP CONSTRAINT IF EXISTS t1_column1_pk;
ALTER TABLE t1 DROP COLUMN IF EXISTS ID;
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PROCEDURE
DEFAULT
TABLE
SECURITY POLICY
ASSEMBLY
VIEW
ROLE
FUNCTION
TRIGGER
SEQUENCE
VIEW
INDEX
RULE
TYPE
DATABASE
SYNONYM
T-SQL Enhancements
 SP1 Update
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CREATE OR ALTER
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Stored Procedures
Functions
Triggers
Views
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CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE NewProc1
AS
BEGIN
PRINT N'SQL Saturday is Great';
END
GO
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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. And Standard with SP1
 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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Enterprise. And Standard with SP1
Hekaton (In Memory OLTP)
 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
 SP1 has changed Standard Edition features
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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993.aspx
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Example Databases and Scripts
 Wide World Importers
 https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/4391/installing-new-sqlserver-sample-databases-wideworldimporters/
 AdventureWorks 2016 CTP3
 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49502
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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
 [email protected]
 Blog: gethynellis.com
 Watch again on YouTube (pre SP1)
 http://tinyurl.com/postledm
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