Learn more about all of the newest features added to SSMS from Kevin Kline's latest article on DBTA.
Category: SQL Server 2016 (2)
Recently I have been exploring Dynamic Data Masking, looking at ways that it can be used and I thought I would share my thoughts with you.
Rob Farley explains why AT TIME ZONE is his new favourite feature in SQL Server 2016, but also shows that it can make a mess of cardinality estimates.
Aaron Bertrand shows a few different ways to download SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition, which is a bit harder to obtain than it should be.
U-SQL and the Azure Data Lake
Today I presented at Discovery Day New England, a SQL Server 2016 event (sponsored in part by SQL Sentry) held at the Microsoft office in Cambridge, MA. Attached are demos and slide decks.
Tim Radney of SQLskills shows us how the Stretch Database feature has evolved from its early CTP beginnings to the RTM version released.
Lori Edwards gives us a quick introduction to a new SQL Server 2016 feature, Temporal Tables, as a part of this month's T-SQL Tuesday.
Aaron Bertrand enters June's T-SQL Tuesday, talking about a feature long missing from SQL Server: The ability for Developer Edition to act like Standard.
For this month's T-SQL Tuesday, Rob Farley looks at some unexpected aspects of query plans you might observe when using Temporal Tables in SQL Server 2016.
Aaron Bertrand reveals a new build of SQL Sentry Plan Explorer, updated to support the new add-in model introduced with the latest SSMS.
Temporal Tables in SQL Server 2016
We've separated out the now-static info about pre-release SQL Server 2016 builds into its own post, primarily to make maintenance easier and...
Aaron Bertrand shares his slides and demos from his two SQL Intersection.
David Benoit walks through the process of configuring a scale-out PolyBase cluster with SQL Server 2016 and Azure Blob Storage.
