Update your SQL Server skills with this introduction to the new features of SQL Server 2016. You?ll learn the new features for performance, security, availability and scalability, reporting and Power BI, data access, and SQL Server OLAP, and you?ll learn about new SQL Server cloud functionality.

This course incorporates material from the Official Microsoft Learning Product 10986: Upgrading Your Skills to SQL Server 2016.

Course Outline:

1. Introduction to SQL Server 2016

• Overview of SQL Server 2016
• SQL Server 2016 Editions and Components
• Installing SQL Server 2016
• SQL Server Management Studio Enhancements

2. What?s New in SQL Server Performance

• Columnstore Indexes for Operational Analytics
• In-memory OLTP Enhancements
• The Query Data Store
• Native JSON
• Temporal Tables

3. What?s New in SQL Server Security?

• Using Always Encrypted
• Row-level Security
• Dynamic Data Masking

4. What?s New in SQL Server Availability and Scalability?

• Enhanced AlwaysOn Availability Groups
• What?s New in Database Caching?
• Using Windows Server 2016

5. What?s New in SQL Server Reporting and BI?

• Reporting Services Enhancements
• PowerBI Enhancements

6. What?s New in SQL Server Data Access?

• PolyBase
• Enhancements to Integration Services

7. New and Enhanced Features in SQL Server OLAP

• New and Enhanced Features in SQL Server OLAP
• What?s New in SQL Server Analysis Services

8. What?s New for SQL Server in the Cloud?

• Stretch Database
• Enhanced Backups to Azure
• Introduction to SQL Server 2016 Hybrid Cloud
• What?s New in SQL Server Azure Database