SQL Server 2016 is built to help businesses get ahead of today’s disruptions. It supports hybrid transactional/analytical processing, advanced analytics and machine learning, mobile BI, data integration, always encrypted query processing capabilities and in-memory transactions with persistence.
It is also perhaps the world’s only relational database to be “born cloud-first,” with the majority of features first deployed and tested in Azure, across 22 global datacenters and billions of requests per day. It is customer tested and battle ready.
Learn how companies like yours are using data innovation to take the lead in their industries. We have put together a list of 5 reasons on why you will love everything that is built into SQL Server 2016.
Industry leader in mission critical:
SQL Server 2016 delivers breakthrough mission-critical capabilities in scalability, performance, and availability for your most important OLTP and data warehousing workloads.
- Scale up to 12 TB of memory and 640 logical processors with Windows Server 2016.
- Reach up to 30x faster transactions and 100x faster queries with enhanced in-memory performance.
- Run real-time Operational Analytics over transactional data.
- Balance loads across readable secondaries in Always On availability groups.
Security + Performance:
A multi-layered approach to security has a proven track record of producing the least vulnerable database, even while being the most widely-used database on the planet.
- Rely on a database with the least vulnerabilities of any major platform—six years in a row.
- Protect data at rest and in motion with TDE and new Always Encrypted.
- Mask sensitive data with minimal application impact using Dynamic Data Masking.
- Grant access based on user characteristics with Row Level Security.