1. Let’s Talk About Data
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SQL Server 2016 – New Innovations
Avanish Panchal
Regional Mentor
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2. SQL Server 2016 – New features
• Temporal Tables
• JSON Support

3. Real data sources are dynamic
• Historical data may be critical to business success
• Traditional databases fail to provide required insights
So far how we’ve achieved this
• Complex, expensive, limited, inflexible, inefficient
How to make life easy – Use SQL Server 2016 
• No change in programming model
• New Insights
Temporal Table & it’s need

4. How does temporal works?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-IN/library/dn935015.aspx

5. Temporal table (actual data)
Temporal Queries *
(Time travel,etc.)
How system-time works?
History Table
Regular queries
(current data)
* Include Historical
Version
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-IN/library/dn935015.aspx

6.  Temporal query over Linked Server.
 History table can't have constraints
 Insert & Update statements can't reference the SYSTEM_TIME
period columns.
 TRUNCATE TABLE is not supported while SYSTEM_VERSIONING is
ON.
 Direct modification of data in history table is not permitted.
 Triggers are not permitted on either the tables.
 Usage of replication technologies is limited.
Limitations in Temporal Tables

7. • A human-readable collection of data that we can access in a really
logical manner.
• Compact and simple data exchange format
• The choice on the web
JSON Support

8. JSON data type
NVARCHAR
JSON Functions in SQL Server
To export: FOR JSON
To import: OPENJSON
To handle: AUTO, PATH, ISJSON, JSON_VALUE
How to handle JSON?

9. Thank you
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