PASS Summit 2017 Day 1 Keynote

I attended PASS Summit 2017 which was my second year of attendance. I enjoyed the conference enormously. It is enjoyable being immersed in data and being with people who are enthusiastic in the field.

The Day 1 Keynote "Microsoft for the Modern Data Estate" was presented by Rohan Kumar. Data is driving transformation. Data, Cloud and AI are the three most disruptive trends of our time. The modern data estate, enables simplicity and common sense. It takes any data from any source, structured or unstructured data and large or small data. The modern data estate provides a seamless infrastructure between on premises, private and public cloud, enabling a hybrid set up that hides the dichotomy of these disparate systems. Seamless flexibly and a choice of engines.

New features in SQL Server 2017

There are many changes to SQL Server 2017. SQL Server 2017 has industry leading performance and security now on Linux and Docker. The key engine changes 

• Support for graph data and queries
• Advanced Machine Learning with R and Python
• Native T-SQL scoring
• Adaptive Query Processing and Automation Plan Correction

SQL Server 2017 will enable deployment in seconds on Linux and Windows containers and has special pricing for SQL Server on Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

New Features Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database offers intelligent DBaaS, privacy and trust, seamless and compatibility and competitive TCO. There is seamless migration to the cloud with the cloud first approach breading faster innovations. The list of changes presented

Azure Data Factory now provides a managed environment for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages and easily move your SSIS workloads to cloud.

There was the announcement made for a new tool called, Microsoft SQL Operations Studio, a free lightweight modern data operations tools for SQL everywhere.

These are but some of the changes coming to the products.