Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2019: Reliability, scalability, and security both on premises and in the cloud

Book Description
Microsoft SQL Server comes equipped with industry-leading features and the best online transaction processing capabilities. If you are looking to work with data processing and management, getting up to speed with Microsoft Server 2019 is key.

Introducing SQL Server 2019 takes you through the latest features in SQL Server 2019 and their importance. You will learn to unlock faster querying speeds and understand how to leverage the new and improved security features to build robust data management solutions. Further chapters will assist you with integrating, managing, and analyzing all data, including relational, NoSQL, and unstructured big data using SQL Server 2019. Dedicated sections in the book will also demonstrate how you can use SQL Server 2019 to leverage data processing platforms, such as Apache Hadoop and Spark, and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes to control your data and efficiently monitor it.

By the end of this book, you’ll be well versed with all the features of Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and understand how to use them confidently to build robust data management solutions.

What you will learn
Build a custom container image with a Dockerfile
Deploy and run the SQL Server 2019 container image
Understand how to use SQL server on Linux
Migrate existing paginated reports to Power BI Report Server
Learn to query Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) data using Azure Data Studio
Understand the benefits of In-Memory OLTP
Who this book is for
This book is for database administrators, architects, big data engineers, or anyone who has experience with SQL Server and wants to explore and implement the new features in SQL Server 2019. Basic working knowledge of SQL Server and relational database management system (RDBMS) is required.

Table of Contents
Optimizing for performance, scalability and real-time insights
Enterprise Security
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Hybrid Features – SQL Server and Microsoft Azure
SQL Server 2019 on Linux
SQL Server 2019 in Containers and Kubernetes
Data Virtualization
Machine Learning Services Extensibility Framework
SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters
Enhancing the Developer Experience
Data Warehousing
Analysis Services
Power BI Report Server
Modernization to the Azure Cloud