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Hi Guys, its very surprising morning today, when I opened my mail box in morning, got a subscribed mail from SQL Server Blog’s from technet.com. Its saying Mr. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, announced SQL Server 2016, an intelligent platform for a mobile first, cloud first world. The next major release of Microsoft’s flagship database and analytics platform provides breakthrough performance for mission critical applications and deeper insights on data across on-premises and cloud. Top capabilities for the release include:

Always Encrypted – a new capability that protects data at rest and in motion
Stretch Database – new technology that lets you dynamically stretch your warm and cold transactional data to Microsoft Azure.
Row-level Security and Dynamic Data Masking
Built-in Advanced Analytics, PolyBase and Mobile BI
Row-level Security and Dynamic Data Masking
In-database analytics – Enhancements to our industry-leading in-memory technologies for real-time analytics on top of breakthrough transactional performance
………………….. and many more…
Always Encrypted

Data security is top of mind, especially for mission critical applications, and SQL Server has been the enterprise database with the fewest security vulnerabilities six years running.  To help customers with data security and compliance when using SQL Server on-premises or in the cloud, SQL Server 2016 introducing Always Encrypted. Always Encrypted, based on technology from Microsoft Research, protects data at rest and in motion. With Always Encrypted, SQL Server can perform operations on encrypted data and best of all, the encryption key resides with the application in the customers trusted environment. Encryption and decryption of data happens transparently inside the application which minimizes the changes that have to be made to existing applications.

 

Stretch Database

Today, in the Ignite keynote, we can gain the benefits of hyper-scale cloud in the box with new hybrid scenarios including Stretch Database. As core transactional tables grow in size, we may need to archive historical data to lower cost and to maintain fast performance. This unique technology allows us to dynamically stretch our warm and cold transactional data to Microsoft Azure, so our operational data is always at hand, no matter the size, and we benefit from the low cost of using Microsoft Azure.  We can use Always Encrypted with Stretch Database to extend our data in a more secure manner for greater peace of mind.

Real-time Operational Analytics & In-Memory OLTP

Building on our industry leading and proven in-memory technologies, customers will benefit from the combination of real-time operational analytics with blazing fast transactional performance – a first among enterprise vendors.  For In-Memory OLTP, which customers today are using for up to 30x faster transactions than disk based systems, Now we can be able to apply this technology tuned for transactional performance to a significantly greater number of applications as well as benefit from increased concurrency.  With these enhancements, the in-memory columnstore will deliver 100X faster queries with in-memory OLTP for in-memory performance and real-time operational analytics.

Built-in Advanced Analytics, PolyBase and Mobile BI

For deeper insights into data, SQL Server 2016 expands its scope beyond transaction processing, data warehousing and business intelligence to deliver advanced analytics as an additional workload in SQL Server with proven technology from Revolution Analytics.  It will make advanced analytics more accessible and increase performance for our advanced analytic workloads by bringing R processing closer to the data and building advanced analytic capabilities right into SQL Server.  Additionally, PolyBase into SQL Server, expanding the power to extract value from unstructured and structured data using existing T-SQL skills. With this wave, we can then gain faster insights through rich visualizations on many devices including mobile applications on Windows, iOS and Android.

Additional capabilities in SQL Server 2016 include:

• Additional security enhancements for Row-level Security and Dynamic Data Masking to round out our security investments with Always Encrypted.
  
• Improvements to AlwaysOn for more robust availability and disaster recovery with multiple synchronous replicas and secondary load balancing.
  
• Native JSON support to offer better performance and support for your many types of your data.
  
• SQL Server Enterprise Information Management (EIM) tools and Analysis Services get an upgrade in performance, usability and scalability.
  
• Faster hybrid backups, high availability and disaster recovery scenarios to backup and restore your on-premises databases to Azure and place your SQL Server AlwaysOn secondaries in Azure.
  

In addition, there are many more capabilities coming with SQL Server 2016 that deliver mission critical performance, deeper insights on your data and allow you to reap the benefits of hyper-scale cloud.

SQL Server 2016 can capture, transform, and analyze any data, of any size, at any scale, in its native format —using the tools, languages and frameworks in a trusted environment on-premises and in the cloud.