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SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

You're reading from  SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788476195
Pages 816 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Introduction to SQL Server 2017 2. Review of SQL Server Features for Developers 3. SQL Server Tools 4. Transact-SQL and Database Engine Enhancements 5. JSON Support in SQL Server 6. Stretch Database 7. Temporal Tables 8. Tightening Security 9. Query Store 10. Columnstore Indexes 11. Introducing SQL Server In-Memory OLTP 12. In-Memory OLTP Improvements in SQL Server 2017 13. Supporting R in SQL Server 14. Data Exploration and Predictive Modeling with R 15. Introducing Python 16. Graph Database 17. Containers and SQL on Linux 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

What is missing in SQL Server 2017?


SQL Server 2016 is the first SQL Server version that has some built-in support for temporal data. However, even in SQL Server version 2017, the support is still quite basic. SQL Server 2016 and 2017 support system-versioned tables only. You have seen at the beginning of this chapter that application versioned tables, and of course bitemporal tables, add much more complexity to temporal problems. Unfortunately, in order to deal with application validity times, you need to develop your own solution, including your own implementation of all constraints, on which you need to enforce data integrity. In addition, you need to deal with the optimization of temporal queries by yourself as well.

In SQL Server 2017, you can define the retention period for historical rows. Therefore, you do not have to do the history data cleanup by yourself, like you needed to do in SQL Server 2016. Nevertheless, it would be very useful to also have the ability to define the absolute...

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