Microsoft SQL Server 2022 Platform Improvements | Data Exposed @ PASS Summit

Looks at a number of improvements in SQL Server 2022 that benefit – or are changes to – Data Platform with Brian Carrig. Data platform is a broad list of areas that includes all of the enhancements that improve performance but exist outside the SQL engine itself. This includes areas as diverse as file systems, server memory and advanced storage subsystems. This is a very hardware and performance-focused session.

00:00 Introduction
02:44 Hardware acceleration for backup compression
04:10 Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) compression
04:32 Demo: Backup Compression and Offloading with Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT)
11:42 In-memory Feature Family
17:14 SQL Server and NVMe PMEM
19:47 SQL Server 2022 – AVX-512 and Columnstore Index Improvements
22:42 Demo

✔️ Resources:
Integrated acceleration & offloading – SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/integrated-acceleration/overview?view=sql-server-ver16
Hybrid Buffer Pool: https://learn.microsoft.com/sql/database-engine/configure-windows/hybrid-buffer-pool?view=sql-server-ver16
Configure persistent memory (PMEM) for SQL Server on Windows: https://learn.microsoft.com/sql/database-engine/configure-windows/configure-persistent-memory?view=sql-server-ver16
Add persisted log buffer to a database: https://learn.microsoft.com/sql/relational-databases/databases/add-persisted-log-buffer?view=sql-server-ver16
Configure persistent memory (PMEM) for SQL Server on Linux: https://learn.microsoft.com/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-configure-pmem?view=sql-server-ver16
Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT): https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/topic-technology/open/quick-assist-technology/overview.html
In-memory database systems and technologies: https://learn.microsoft.com/sql/relational-databases/in-memory-database?view=sql-server-ver16
Integrated acceleration & offloading – SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/sql/relational-databases/integrated-acceleration/overview?view=sql-server-ver16

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