Luckily, SQL Server 2017 has all the built-in diagnostics you need, along with intelligence built into the engine based on these diagnostics to help automate, learn and adapt. Scott Klein , CTO, Cloud ...

Function inlining in SQL Server 2019. Starting with SQL Server 2019, scalar functions written in T-SQL may be inlined. This means they will be folded into the query and no longer incur the UDF ...

But there is more! SQL Server 2019 will come with built-in support for Spark and the Hadoop File System. That’s an acknowledgement of the popularity of these open-source tools, as well as the ...