Should we go with the new release of MS SQL Server 2022 ?

I will define conclusion first for the quick insights.

Conclusion:

If you are working with critical data - regulatory compliant data (with zero loss tolerance),

If you have large amount of data and you are using analysis tools for data analysis,

If you are adapting cloud infrastructure or you are already on cloud infrastructure,

If you are working with multiple types of Database

then you can go with MS SQL Server 2022.

And obviously, you will have better performance and better security.

Description:

Connecting to Azure (Advanced Disaster Recovery)

• Azure Synapse Link for SQL 2022 is a feature that enables you to replicate data from SQL Server 2022 to Azure Synapse Analytics in near real-time. It allows you to run analytics, business intelligence, and machine learning scenarios on your operational data without impacting the performance of your source database.

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Object storage integration and Data lake virtualization

• SQL Server 2022 can now be integrated with S3-compatible object storage and Azure Storage. It allows you to store your data more cost-effectively and cost-effectively
• It supports Data Lake Virtualization, which allows you to query and analyze data in Azure Data Lake Storage without moving the data to SQL Server.

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Data Virtualization

• SQL Server 2022 adds support for querying external data using polybase with Oracle TNS files, MongoDB API for Cosmos DB, and ODBC. e.g. LIMS system (MS SQL Server DB) needs data directly from Instrument software/system (Oracle DB)

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Most secure in 10 years, MS Defender for SQL

• Microsoft Defender for cloud integration: It helps to protect the SQL Servers environment on on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments.
• Microsoft Purview integration: You can use Microsoft Purview policies to SQL servers enrolled in Azure Arc, and Microsoft Purview Data use management.
• Ledger: The Ledger provides a highly secure database with tamper evidence capabilities in the database.?
• Azure Active Directory authentication: You can configure Azure Active Directory authentication for SQL Server database connections.
• Always encrypted with secure enclaves: You can use JOIN, ORDER BY, and GROUP BY clauses for UTF-8 collation in confidential queries using the secure enclaves.?
• Support for MS-TDS 8.0 protocol: The SQL Server 2022 supports TFS 8.0 and TLS 1.3 support for data encryption.

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Industry leading performance and availability

• Improved in-memory OLTP performance: SQL Server 2022 performance improvements for in-memory OLTP include faster startup times and improved query performance.
• Reduced I/O: SQL Server 2022 improved buffer pool management and better compression.
• Optimized query processing: SQL Server 2022 includes a number of optimizations to query processing, such as improved query plan caching and better adaptive query optimization.
• Improved performance for columnstore indexes, temporal tables, and machine learning workloads

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Query Store hints and intelligent query processing

• Query Store hints allow you to provide SQL Server with additional information about your queries, which can help to improve performance.
• SQL Server 2022 includes a number of new intelligent query processing features, such as adaptive query optimization, Memory Grant feedback, Parameter Sensitive plan optimization, Degree of parallelism(DOP), and query parallelization.

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