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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

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Columnar storage brings a completely new set of possibilities to SQL Server. You can get lightning performance in analytical queries right from your data warehouse, without a special analytical database management system. This chapter started by describing features that support analytical queries in SQL Server other than columnar storage. You can use row or page data compression levels, bitmap filtered hash joins, filtered indexes, indexed views, window analytical and aggregate functions, table partitioning, and more. However, columnar storage adds an additional level of compression and performance boost. You learned about the algorithms behind the fantastic compression delivered by columnar storage. This chapter also included a lot of code, showing you how to create and use the nonclustered and the clustered columnstore indexes, including updating the data, creating constraints...

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