Sql Server 2017 Developer's Guide : A Professional Guide To Designing And Developing Enterprise Database Applications

Microsoft SQL Server 2017 is the next big step in the data platform history of Microsoft as it brings in the power of R and Python for machine learning and containerization-based deployment on Windows and Linux. This book prepares you for more advanced topics by starting with a quick introduction to SQL Server 2017's new features and a recapitulation of the possibilities you may have already explored with previous versions of SQL Server. The next part introduces you to enhancements in the Transact-SQL language and new database engine capabilities and then switches to a completely new technology inside SQL Server: JSON support. We also take a look at the Stretch database, security enhancements, and temporal tables. Furthermore, the book focuses on implementing advanced topics, including Query Store, columnstore indexes, and In-Memory OLTP. Towards the end of the book, you'll be introduced to R and how to use the R language with Transact-SQL for data exploration and analysis. You'll also learn to integrate Python code in SQL Server and graph database implementations along with deployment options on Linux and SQL Server in containers for development and testing. By the end of this book, you will have the required information to design efficient, high-performance database applications without any hassle.

• | Author: Dejan Sarka, Milos Radivojevic, William Durkin
• | Publisher: Packt Publishing
• | Publication Date: Mar 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 816 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1788476190
• | ISBN-13: 9781788476195