Native JSON support, Temporal Tables , Live Query Statistics , Stretch Database and Polybase are features that undoubtedly are of great interest for those who develop apps of any kind. In this session we will see the first three features in some detail and introduce the potential of the last mentioned to give a complete picture of SQL Server 2016 that is one of the richest and most important release, as regards the development, from SQL Server 2005 forward. There will, of course, a "small" quote to SQL Server for Linux .