In this session, we explain how the new version of SQL Server will improve database operations, advance security and compliance and bring advanced analytics to all your data workloads.

1. Planning your Data Platform Modernisation Raodmap
SQL Server 2019 Hotlap
Peter Ward
peter@wardyit.com

2. 25 Years

3. Technology is shaping how business innovates & grows
Empower your
employees
Optimize your
operations
Engage your
customers
Transform your
products
Digital
transformation

4. SQL Server 2019 enables intelligence
over all your data
Integrating all data Managing all data Analysing all data
Unified access to all
your data with
unparalled
performance
Easily and securely
manage data big and
small
Build intelligent apps
and AI with all your
data

5. SQL Server is the hub for integrating data
Easily combine across relational
and non-relational data stores
Analytics AppsT-SQL
SQL Server
PolyBase external table
ODBC Big DataRelational databasesNoSQL

6. Increase performance
for data virtualisation
Scale-out data pools combine and cache data
from many sources for fast querying
Scenario
• A global car manufacturing company wants
to join data from across multiple sources
including HDFS, SQL Server and Cosmos DB
Solution
• Query data in relational and non-relational
data stores with new PolyBase connectors
• Create a scale out data pool caches of
combined data
• Expose the datasets as a shared data source,
without writing code to move and integrate
data
Shard 1
Scale-outdatapool
SQL Server
Shard 2 Shard n
PolyBase
connectors
HDFS Cosmos DB SQL Server

7. Easily deploy and manage
a SQL Server + Big Data
cluster
Easily deploy and manage a Big Data cluster
using Microsoft’s Kubernetes-based Big Data
solution built-in to SQL Server.
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS storage,
SQL Server relational engine and Spark
analytics are deployed as containers on
Kubernetes in one easy-to-manage package.

8. Simplified deployment
with containers &
Kubernetes
A container is a standardised unit of software
that includes everything needed to run it
Kubernetes is a container hosting platform
Benefits of containers and Kubernetes:
1. Fast to deploy
2. Self-contained – no installation required
3. Upgrades are easy because – just upload a
new image
4. Scalable, multi-tenant, designed for
elasticity
5. Provides abstraction layer so you can run
anywhere
Container
SQL Server
HDFS Data Node
Kubernetes Pod
Spark

9. Increase analytics and apps
performance

10. Azure Data Studio provides a unified tool for
querying data using a notebook experience for
both T-SQL and Spark.
Easily access all your data across SQL Server
and HDFS.
The cluster administration portal provides easy
to use cloud-style managed services for HA
monitoring, backup/recovery, security and
provisioning.
The REST APO and command line tools simplify
automation.
The development and management experience
is consistent regardless of where you run – on
prem or any of the major cloud providers.
Unified development
& administration

11. Integrate structured & unstructured data

12. SQL Server 2019 Big Data, Analytics and AI
Data virtualisation Managed SQL Server,
Spark and data lake
Complete AI
platform
• Combine data from many
sources without moving or
replicating it.
• Scales out compute and
caching to boost
performance
• Easily feed integrated data
from many sources to your
model training
• Ingest and prep data and
then train, store and
operationalise your models
all in one system.
• Store high volume data in a
data lake and access it
easily using either SQL or
Spark.
• Management services,
admin portal and
integrated security make it
all easy to manage.

13. The heart of SQL Server is mission critical performance,
security and availability
Performance Security Availability
Breakthrough
performance and
availability
Data protected at rest
and in motion
High availability for
business critical
workloads

14. Mission critical performance
The intelligent database
• Intelligent Query Processing
• Gain performance insights anytime and
anywhere with Lightweight Query Profiling
• Accelerating I/O performance with
Persistent Memory

15. Mission critical security
Confidential computing
• Always Encrypted with secure enclaves
• Data Classification and auditing built-in
• Manage certificates easier with SQL
Configuration Manager

16. Mission critical availability
Keep SQL Server running
• Always-On availability group enhancements
• Resumable online index creation
• Online Cluster Columnstore index creation
and rebuilt
• Availability groups on Kubernetes.

17. The modern development platform
Develop on your
choice of
language and
tooling
Speed app
development and
admin with new
enhancements

18. Enhancing the developer
experience
• SQL Graph enhancements
• UTF-8 support
• Machine Learning Services enhancements
• SQL Server Java extension

19. Enhancing the platform of
choice
Closing feature gaps for SQL Server on Linux
• Replication
• Distributed transactions
• Machine Learning
Open LDAP Provider support
The Microsoft Container Registry
SQL Server RedHat Container Images
Always On Availability Groups on Kubernetes

20. Tuning the SQL Server
engine
Closing feature gaps for SQL Server on
Linux
• Columnstore states in DBCC
CLONEDATABASE
• Esitmate compression for
Columnstore indexes
• Troubleshoot page resource waits
with new built-in T-SQL

21. The Azure Data Studio
tools experience
Azure Data Studio is a lightweight, open source,
cross-platform graphical management tool and
code editor.
Enable a modern DevOps experience for
database developers and DBAs on their
platform of choice.
Simplify development configuration,
management, monitoring and troubleshooting
for SWL databases on-premise and in the cloud.
Use SQL Server Management Studio 18.0
Preview to access, configure, manage and
administer all SQL Server components.

22. Investments in the future of SQL Server
• SQL Server on Edge
• Finish features for big data clusters and data
virtualisation
• Making SQL Server more available, faster
• Further enhance SQL Server security
• Enhance the engine to align with hardware
innovation
• Continue to make the container experience great
• Engine improvements based on customer feedback

23. Microsoft Server Product Lifecycle
Mainstream Support
5 years
Extended Support
5 years
Extended Support
Ends July 9, 2019
Extended Support
Ends January 14, 2020
SQL Server 2008
and 2008 R2
Windows Server
2008 and 2008 R2
2018 2019 2020

24. GET STARTED Assess
Inventory Windows Server and SQL
Seervr workloads in
your environment and determine migration path.
Migrate
Migrate your legacy SQL Server and Windows Server
with guidance, resources and tools.
Optimize
Leverage Software Assurance benefits and Azure
Services to manage and grow your environment.

25. Data Platform Modernisation
Minimise downtime | Increase performance | Reduce costs | Leverage new technology
Modernising your SQL Server environment is more than a change
in versions. With the ever-increasing need to deliver more, faster,
and greater security; it makes sense to start with the database.
Based on a proven framework using best-practise methodologies,
our Data Platform Consultants have managed some of Australia’s
largest modernisation projects.

26. Data Platform
Modernisation
Assessment
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Schedule a complimentary half-day workshop with
WARDY IT Solutions’ Data Platform consultants to
map out your modernisation options.
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27. Learn more
• Preview SQL Server 2019 now: https://Microsoft.com/sqlserver2019
• See what’s new : https://docs.Microsoft.com/sql/sql-server/what-s-new-in-sql-server- ver15
• Join the early adoption program: https://aak.ms/eapsignup

28. Thank You
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