Overview of the Microsoft SQL Server 2019 technology
Microsoft SQL Server offers a powerful end-to-end data processing platform. In other words, we can gain data from an extensive set of sources, securely and reliably managed, transformed, processed, analyzed, and visualized under an all-in-one license.
The following diagram shows what the bigger picture of the SQL Server technology set looks like:
Fig. 1.1 – Overview of SQL Server technology set on-premises
The preceding diagram shows one of the many possible ways in which technologies within SQL Server can cooperate. SQL Server Database Engine (DE) is depicted twice in the diagram because it possibly plays two major roles within the data processing platform, as follows:
