New Transact-SQL Enhancements

What would a new SQL Server release be without a number of new T-SQL commands and constructs to further expand the power and capabilities of the T-SQL language? However, SQL Server 2014 seems to be the exception.

Besides the T-SQL constructs and syntax elements introduced to support In-Memory OLTP, the only other new T-SQL constructs provided in SQL Server 2014 include the following:

Image Inline specification of CLUSTERED and NONCLUSTERED indexes in the CREATE TABLE command for disk-based tables. This feature is equivalent to issuing a create table followed by corresponding CREATE INDEX statements (this feature is covered ...

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