Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by other software applications—which may run either on the same computer or on another computer across a network (including the Internet).
Microsoft markets at least a dozen different editions of Microsoft SQL Server, aimed at different audiences and for workloads ranging from small single-machine applications to large Internet-facing applications with many concurrent users.
SQL Server 2019 (15.x) builds on previous releases to grow SQL Server as a platform that gives you choices of development languages, data types, on-premises or cloud environments, and operating systems.
Intelligent Query Processing
With Intelligent Query Processing, you know that critical parallel workloads improve when they’re running at scale. At the same time, they remain adaptive to the constantly changing world of data. Intelligent Query Processing is available by default on the latest database compatibility level setting, delivering broad impact that improves the performance of existing workloads with minimal implementation effort.
In-Memory Database
SQL Server In-Memory Database technologies leverage modern hardware innovation to deliver unparalleled performance and scale. SQL Server 2019 (15.x) builds on earlier innovations in this area, such as in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP), to unlock a new level of scalability across all your database workloads.
Intelligent performance
SQL Server 2019 (15.x) builds on Intelligent Database innovations in previous releases to ensure that it just runs faster. These improvements help overcome known resource bottlenecks and provide options for configuring your database server to provide predictable performance across all your workloads.
Monitoring
Monitoring improvements unlock performance insights over any database workload, just when you need them.
Developer experience
SQL Server 2019 (15.x) continues to provide a world-class developer experience with enhancements to graph and spatial data types, UTF-8 support, and a new extensibility framework that allows developers to use the language of their choice to gain insights across all their data.
Unicode support
Support businesses across different countries and regions, where the requirement of providing global multilingual database applications and services is critical to meeting customer demands and complying with specific market regulations.
– Language extensions
– Spatial
– Error messages
When an extract, transform, and load (ETL) process fails because the source and the destination don’t have matching data types and/or length, troubleshooting used to be time-consuming, especially in large datasets. SQL Server 2019 (15.x) allows.
Mission-critical security
SQL Server provides a security architecture that’s designed to allow database administrators and developers to create secure database applications and counter threats. Each version of SQL Server has improved on previous versions with the introduction of new features and functionality, and SQL Server 2019 (15.x) continues to build on this story.
