SQL Server 2017 generally available on October 2nd...

Scott Guthrie and Rohan Kumar officially made the announcement today at Ignite that SQL Server 2017 will be generally available on October 2nd, 2017.

Check out ScottGu's blog post at:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-azure-advancements-remove-cloud-barriers-for-enterprises-at-ignite-2017

Rohan's Blog post at:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2017/09/25/microsoft-for-the-modern-data-estate/

Andrew Brust also wrote a very nice article detailing out all the great new features that come with SQL Server 2017. Read his article at:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/review-sql-server-2017-adds-python-graph-processing-and-runs-on-linux/

Stay tuned to hear more about SQL Server 2017 over the next several weeks both on our main SQL Server blog https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/and here at the bobsql blog: https://aka.ms/bobsql

 

Bob Ward

Principal Architect, Microsoft Database Systems Group