Microsoft SQL Server is developing faster than ever before in its almost 30-year history. The latest versions, SQL Server 2016 and 2017, bring with them many important new features. Some of these new features just extend or improve features that were introduced in the previous versions of SQL Server, and some of them open a completely new set of possibilities for a database developer.
This book prepares its readers for more advanced topics by starting with a quick introduction to SQL Server 2016 and 2017's new features and a recapitulation of the possibilities database developers already had in previous versions of SQL Server. It then goes on to, the new tools are introduced. The next part introduces small delights in the Transact-SQL ...
