SQL Server 2019 editions

Industry leading security, performance and intelligence over

all your data.

Feature highlights
• Unlimited cores of CPU
• Unlimited memory
• Industry-leading performance with
Feature highlights unmatched scalability
• Up to 24 cores of CPU • Unlimited virtualization benefits
• Up to 128 GBs of memory • Petabyte scale data warehousing
Feature highlights
• Data virtualization through PolyBase • Business critical HA on Windows and
• Up to 16 cores of CPU Linux
• Enhanced in-memory performance
• Up to 64 GBs of memory • Low TCO with free DR replicas
• Automatic intelligent database tuning
• In-memory OLTP and Columnstore • Access to Power BI Report Server
• Azure Data Studio with notebook
• End-to-end encryption with secure support
enclaves + Standard features

• Full T-SQL surface area + Express/web features

• Support for Linux and Windows + Express/web features

containers
• UTF-8 character encoding
• Data classification and auditing

Build once and deploy across any SQL Server edition without changing your app
What’s new in SQL Server 2019
SQL Server 2019 new features Express/web Standard Enterprise

Maximum number of cores 16 24 OS Max

Compute and
Maximum memory utilized per instance 64 GB 128 GB OS Max
storage
Maximum size 524 PB 524 PB 524 PB

Intelligence Data virtualization using PolyBase (including additional data sources like Oracle, Teradata, MongoDB, and other
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over all your SQL Server databases)

data
Unified AI platform to train and operationalize models in SQL Server ML Services ✕ ✕

Compatibility certification ✕ ✕ ✕
Choice of
language and UTF-8 support ✕ ✕ ✕
platform
Support for SQL Server Java extension ✕ ✕ ✕

Free DR replicas in Azure and on-premises ✕ ✕

Intelligent QP features: Scalar UDF inlining, table variable deferred compilation, approximate count distinct, and
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automatic tuning
Industry-
leading Intelligent QP features: row mode memory grant feedback and batch mode for row store ✕
performance
Automatic read-write connection re-routing
and availability ✕

In-Memory Database: memory-optimized tempdb ✕

In-Memory Database: Persistent Memory support ✕ ✕

Always Encrypted with secure enclaves ✕ ✕ ✕

Transparent database encryption

Secure and ✕ ✕

reliable Data classification and auditing ✕ ✕ ✕

Vulnerability assessment ✕ ✕ ✕

Azure Data Studio to manage SQL Server including support for T-SQL using Notebooks
Quick business ✕ ✕ ✕

insights SQL Server Analysis Services Direct Query ✕ ✕

SQL Server 2019 continues to deliver unparalleled value
Key investment themes

Choice of language Industry-leading Highly secure Quick business insights

and platform performance and availability and reliable

• Data virtualization to integrate external

data sources
• Azure Machine Learning
• Support for Kubernetes deployment
• Free supported Java
• Support for Linux including Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux • Native UTF-8 support
Enterprise Server (SLES), and Ubuntu • In-Memory Database: Persistent Memory
• Support for Docker containers on Linux and support
Windows • Accelerated database recovery
• Python language support • Free DR to Azure
• Real-time operational analytics • Support for graph data • Always Encrypted with secure enclaves
• PolyBase • Automatic plan correction and adaptive • Data classification & auditing
query processing
• R language support • Vulnerability assessment
• Cross platform availability groups
• SQL Server Machine Learning Services • Notebook support for T-SQL, Python in
• Power BI reporting both on-premises
• Dynamic data masking, Row level security Azure Data Studio
and in the cloud
and Always encrypted • SQL Server Analysis Services Direct Query
• Access to Power BI Report Server
• End to end mobile BI

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