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SQL Server v.Next - Data, analytics and artificial intelligence live event - April 19th, 2017

The IT landscape is changing every day. Nowadays it is more usual than ever to talk about data collecting, processing and visualization. If a few years ago we use to talk in TB of data, now PB is a normal data unit.
I remember than 10 years ago having a database that was bigger than 1GB it was acceptable, but not very common for small or medium company size. If we are looking now around us, a database of 20GB is a commodity. Anyone will think the database is to big or you need special hardware for it.
Security became now the biggest concern, where you persist data, what data you persist, who access what data are the questions that you need to face up.
5 years ago if you would say that you want to run SQL Server on Linux... it would be a joke, but look where we are not. We have SQL Server on Linux, we have containers, Docker and we see how Microsoft embrace the open source word.
We are exited to find out more about new features that SQL v.Next is preparing to us. It's not only about Linux support, this is just a small part. Features like:

  • In-memory OLTP
  • Columnstore
  • Always Encrypted
  • Transparent Data Encryption
  • Row-Level Security
  • Dynamic Data Masking

are the big things that are coming.

If you want to find more about this you can join the live event that will take place on April 19th. If you are from Cluj-Napoca, please join our meet-up event to find out what future is reserving to us.


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