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SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

You're reading from   SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide A professional guide to designing and developing enterprise database applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788476195
Length 816 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dejan Sarka Dejan Sarka
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Miloš Radivojević Miloš Radivojević
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William Durkin William Durkin
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to SQL Server 2017 FREE CHAPTER 2. Review of SQL Server Features for Developers 3. SQL Server Tools 4. Transact-SQL and Database Engine Enhancements 5. JSON Support in SQL Server 6. Stretch Database 7. Temporal Tables 8. Tightening Security 9. Query Store 10. Columnstore Indexes 11. Introducing SQL Server In-Memory OLTP 12. In-Memory OLTP Improvements in SQL Server 2017 13. Supporting R in SQL Server 14. Data Exploration and Predictive Modeling with R 15. Introducing Python 16. Graph Database 17. Containers and SQL on Linux 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we got an overview of how SQL Server can be hosted in a container environment (natively on Windows), allowing us to easily deploy new instances of SQL Server with effectively a single line of code. This lightweight virtualization technology fits well into a development scenario and encourages us to experiment with new versions of SQL Server without the traditional overhead of enterprise IT workflows for deploying new servers.

We also saw how simple it is to install SQL Server on Linux, which is, in fact, even simpler than installing SQL Server on Windows. A single repository command can download the desired release of SQL Server and deploy it into a Linux installation. Depending on the internet connection, we can potentially spin up an instance of SQL Server in minutes rather than multiples of that time when working with Windows (including server restarts...

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