Wednesday, February 19, 2020

What's new in Microsoft SQL Server 2019?




Microsoft SQL Server 2019 is released on 04 November, 2019. It's also called as SQL Server 2019 (15.x) or SQL 2019.
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Mainstream support ends on 07 January, 2025.
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Extended support ends on 08 January, 2030.
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 is Compatible with Database Level 150.
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 is Generally available on below Operating Systems:
1.       Windows
2.       Linux
3.       Docker
4.       Kubernetes


Below are the list of features that included/upgraded on Microsoft SQL Server 2019 version:

Intelligence across all your data with Big Data Clusters



Microsoft SQL Server 2019 is providing a complete environment to work with large number of data sets, it also including machine learning and AI capabilities as well.

  • Its support structured data and unstructured data

Microsoft SQL Server 2019  helping to combining vast amount of data to both structured data and unstructured data and allow to access the data using either Spark or T-SQL.

  • AI capabilities for your data

Big Data Clusters provides all the required systems and tools for store data, ingest data, prepared data for analysis, and also useful to train data and ope-rationalize machine learning models.


Choice of Language and platform


Run Microsoft SQL Server 2019 with Windows, Linux, Docker and deployments using Kubernetes.


Industry-leading Performance


Microsoft SQL Server 2019 improved record-breaking performance on Windows platform and Linux platform. Microsoft SQL Server continues improving  leads across the real-world application performance benchmarks , TPC-H data warehousing workload, and TPC-E OLTP workload.

  • Database Performance 

Upgrading and modernize your Microsoft SQL Server database in the cloud, at the edge and on-premises. With the Database compatibility certification do away with the risk of application incompatibility. Its help to use persistent memory support for in-memory database capabilities and memory-optimized for tempdb to increase performance for your projects and critical data work loads.

Most Secure Data Platform


Protect data at rest and in motion with a database that has the fewest vulnerabilities of any major platform for nine years running in the National Institute of Standards and Technologies National Vulnerabilities Database.

  • Built-in security and compliance

Microsoft SQL Server 2019 provides built-in features for data protection, data classification, and data monitoring and alerts. Microsoft SQL Server 2019 identifies activities, monitors logs and provides alerts on suspicious activity in background, even it identifying malicious activities and re mediating unauthorized configurations  and security gaps.

  • Always encrypted data enclaves

Microsoft SQL Server 2019 have facility to Encrypt sensitive data and run rich computations on encrypted data, also it enables customized access based data on role with complex row filtering.

Unparalleled high availability

  • Maximum availability

Gain mission-critical up time, fast fail over, and improved TCO using cloud disaster recovery replicas and always on availability groups.

  • Accelerated database recovery

Microsoft SQL Server 2019 nicely improves database availability to enabling fast and consistent database recovery regardless of the number or size of active data transactions.

End to end Mobile UI

  • Self-service BI on any device

With Power BI Report Server Explore visual data and quickly discover patterns to make better and faster decisions, which is added with your SQL Server Software Assurance license.

  • Connect all your data

Combine data from almost all source using the extensive connector library and new transformations in SSAS tabular models.

  • Visual data exploration

Using SQL Server BI tools  you can find the answers beyond the data with visual data exploration and collective analysis of data lakes data.

SQL Server on Azure

  • Highly scalable cloud services

Microsoft SQL Server 2019 allows to Migrate to Azure without redesigning your applications and increases your existing applications performance.

It provides below type of unified SQL platform built, for industry-leading performance of Microsoft SQL Server.



  1. Limitless Scalability
  2. Intelligent Performance
  3. Built-in Security


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