A preview into SQL Server 2019 from Bob, Asad and my presentation at PASS Summit 2018 (Nov '18). We provided insights into what our public preview builds for SQL Server 2019 had in November.

1. Inside SQL Server 2019
Asad Khan, Microsoft
Bob Ward, Microsoft
Amit Banerjee, Microsoft
The Roadmap for SQL
Server

2. Insights in minutes
and rich reports
Choice of platform
and language
Most secure
over the last 8 years5
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
Vulnerabilities(2010-2017)
The best of Power BI and
SQL Server Reporting Services
in Power BI Report Server
Industry-leading
performance
#1 OLTP performance1
#1 DW performance on
1TB2, 10TB3, and 30TB4
Private cloud Public cloud
Most consistent data platformIn-memory across all workloads
1/10th the cost of Oracle
T-SQL
Java
C/C++
SCALA
Node.js
C#/VB.NET
Python
Ruby
.NET core
All TPC Claims as of 1/19/2018.
1 http://www.tpc.org/4081; 2 http://www.tpc.org/3331; 3 http://www.tpc.org/3326; 4 http://www.tpc.org/3321; 5 National Institute of Standards and Technology Comprehensive Vulnerability Database
Intelligence over
any data
Analytics over structured
and unstructured data with
the power of SQL and
Apache Spark
Now with big data clusters
Modernize on premises
SQL

3. Build intelligent apps and
AI with all your data
Analyzing all data
Easily and securely manage
data big and small
Managing all data
Simplified management and analysis through a unified deployment, governance, and tooling
Unified access to all your data with
unparalleled performance
Integrating all data

4. Including Relational, noSQL, Hadoop
Using Apache Spark and SQL
With Azure Data Studio

5. Managed SQL Server, Spark,
and data lake
Store high volume data in a data lake and access
it easily using either SQL or Spark
Management services, admin portal, and
integrated security make it all easy to manage
SQL
Server
Data virtualization
Combine data from many sources without
moving or replicating it
Scale out compute and caching to boost
performance
T-SQL
Analytics Apps
Open
database
connectivity
NoSQL Relational
databases
HDFS
Complete AI platform
Easily feed integrated data from many sources to
your model training
Ingest and prep data and then train, store, and
operationalize your models all in one system
SQL Server External Tables
Compute pools and data pools
Spark
Scalable, shared storage (HDFS)
External
data sources
Admin portal and management services
Integrated AD-based security
SQL Server
ML Services
Spark &
Spark ML
HDFS
REST API containers
for models

6. Compute pool
SQL Compute
Node
SQL Compute
Node
SQL Compute
Node
…
Compute pool
SQL Compute
Node
IoT data
Directly
read from
HDFS
Persistent storage
…
Storage pool
SQL
Server
Spark
HDFS Data Node
SQL
Server
Spark
HDFS Data Node
SQL
Server
Spark
HDFS Data Node
Kubernetes pod
Analytics
Custom
apps BI
SQL Server
master instance
Node Node Node Node Node Node Node
SQL
Data mart
SQL Data
Node
SQL Data
Node
Compute pool
SQL Compute
Node
Storage Storage

7. Security AvailabilityPerformance
High availability for business
critical workloads
Data protected at rest and
in motion
Breakthrough performance
and scalability

8. The intelligent database
The Intelligent Query Processing feature family
Intelligent QP
Adaptive QP
Adaptive Joins
Batch Mode
Interleaved
Execution
Memory Grant
Feedback
Row ModeBatch Mode
Table Variable
Deferred Compilation
Approximate QP
Approximate
Count Distinct
Batch Mode for
Row Store
Scalar UDF
inlining

9. Confidential computing
plaintext ciphertext
Enhanced
client driver
Enclave
plaintext
Always Encrypted with secure enclaves

10. Availability groups on Kubernetes
Keep SQL Server running
AG
Pod
Operator
Pod
SQL Server
primary
AG agent
Load
balancer
Pod
SQL Server
secondary
AG agent
Pod
SQL Server
secondary
AG agent
Load
balancer
• Accelerated Data Recovery
(Planned)
• Availability Groups for System
Databases (Planned)

11. Speed app development and
admin with new enhancements
Develop on your choice
of language and tooling

12. SQL
Server
R

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AS page_info;

16. Azure Data Studio is a lightweight, open source,
cross-platform graphical management tool and
code editor
Enable a modern DevOps experience for database
developers and DBAs on their platform of choice​
Simplify development, configuration,
management, monitoring and troubleshooting for
SQL databases on-premises and in the cloud
Use SQL Server Management Studio 18.0
Preview to access, configure, manage, and
administer all SQL Server components