{"id":1817,"date":"2014-12-11T13:23:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T21:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/bobb\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2014-12-18T09:50:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T17:50:40","slug":"announcement-blog-azure-sql-database-v12-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/bobb\/announcement-blog-azure-sql-database-v12-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a “me-too announcement” blog on Azure SQL Database V12 preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

In general, I usually hate “me too” announcement blog posts. Over the years, I’ve considered it less than useful to simply repeat “Product XXX released to RTM” when nice marketing\/technical announcements have already been posted for the folks that are responsible. Or even to rehash books online pages, as another example.<\/p>\n

In keeping with that concept, it was announced today that Azure SQL Database (the PAAS offering) is previewing a V12-level (that’s SQL Server 2014-major version number) version of the database. If you’ve ever heard me harping (politely, I think \ud83d\ude09 on the fact that Azure SQL Database (ASB) has been V11-level since its release, that’s great news by itself.<\/p>\n

The marketing announcement is here.<\/a> The somewhat more technical “what’s new” announcement is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So what’s there to add? Before actually trying this out, here’s some things that came to mind.<\/p>\n

1. There’s no full-text search feature included in ASB V12 that I can see. BUT… because Change Tracking works with ASB V12, we should be able to use Liam’s lovely sample<\/a> (that syncs with Azure Search but requires SQL Server Change Tracking enabled) to sync ASB V12 with Azure Search now. Great.<\/p>\n

2. We’re going to need new tools (SSMS, SSDT, PowerShell Azure cmdlets) to work with the new ASB V12 features. Updates, the tools are here: Azure PowerShell<\/a> 0.8.12 that supports ASB V12 is available as of 12\/16\/2014. SQL Server 2014 CU5<\/a> contains support for ASB V12 in SSMS. Previews of SSDT and DAC that support ASB V12 were announced<\/a> on 12\/17\/2014.<\/p>\n

3. There’s SAFE assembly SQLCLR support. Since I don’t see CREATE ASSEMBLY functionality that works with Azure Blob as DLL, I think we’ll need to use CREATE ASSEMBLY…. [from bits] for now. There’s no EXTERNAL ACCESS support. I can see that because you shouldn’t attempt to trundle around in a file system or registry that isn’t yours. But how about the ability to call a web service? That’s EXTERNAL ACCESS and a (sort-of) natural for a web-based offering. I always caution against doing this (web service thing) synchronously in on-prem SQL Server (what if the website is down?), but there’s no service broker in ASB to make it asynchronous. But anyway, it’s not supported.<\/p>\n

4. Spatial support in ASB was sort-of a 75\/25 WRT new SQL Server 2014 features. Can’t wait to try these out… as well as trying out the Extended Event sessions for real. They should work much better than when I got overly excited about some early artifacts a few months ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5. This is the first version of ASB (that I can remember) that has some in-database functions segregated to premium databases (e.g. columnstore, parallel queries). Ancillary service DB functions (e.g point-in-time restore) were always different-by-edition.<\/p>\n

That’s all for now. Guess there’s a lot of tires to kick here. Thanks for all the fish.<\/p>\n

Cheers, @bobbeauch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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