For the BI
folks out there in the world I’m going to say: There are investments done in
Analysis Services, Master Data Services and Data Quality Services. Power BI is
getting closer to On-Prem, Power Query as a Data Source for Integration
Services and this is not all. Over the time forward I will elaborate and share
my expressions of all the new goodies.
For the
DBAs out there, and the DB Devs too, we’re getting tons of new stuff. Think
about having a tool that actually persists queries and execution plans, and
help us identify parameters, and easily pinpoint execution plans to explicit
queries. And expose this together with graphs and statistics. This coolness is
called Query Store.
And think
about having a Slowly Changing Dimension type 3 alike feature built in into the
OLTP engine, and having this ability transparently added to tables we need to
keep track of all versions of rows, and as a time machine jump back and forward
in time over the data. This is called Temporal Tables.
Is your
table growing out of size and you still need to keep everything forever? Think
about letting the table stretch cold data to Azure, still keeping it online, transparently
and infinitely. Just having the need to have the hot and warm data in the
backups, still being able to restore to any point in time have timely snapshots
for your restore process. In 2016 the hybrid experience take another step and
gives us the ability to stretch an On-Premise table to Azure offering you
potential infinite storage.
This is
just some, and more will come… I’ll keep you posted!
Over and
out,
Mattias
