Thursday, October 01, 2015

SQL 2016 CTP 2.4 out now

The SQL server team at Microsoft announced availability of SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.4 yesterday. Main changes from previous CTP are:

1. Operational Analytics and In-Memory Data Warehouse
2. x86 server deprecation
3. SQL Server Smart Maintenance Plans
4. Tempdb Scalability improvement
5. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) improvements
6. SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) improvements