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This blog summarises the main new features of SQL Server for non-administrators (that is, most of us). Most parts of SQL Server get minor changes at best, but SSAS Tabular 2017 gets a host of major improvements.
- What's new in SQL Server 2017 (differences versus 2016)
- Changes to SQL Server 2017 installation (this blog)
- What's new in the T-SQL language in SQL Server 2017
- What's new in Integration Services 2017 (SSIS 2017)
- What's new in Reporting Services 2017 (SSRS 2017)
- What's new in Analysis Services 2017 (SSAS 2017)
Posted by Andy Brown on 23 January 2018
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Changes to SQL Server 2017 installation
When you install SQL Server 2017 Developer Edition, you now do so in chunks:
As this shows, Reporting Services is now a completely separate installation.
As part of the installation process, you have to confirm your acceptance of R and Python:
R has been renamed to Machine Learning Services, a feature which now also supports Python.
Other than that, everything is pretty much as it used to be!
One other change: Analysis Services installation defaults to using tabular models, rather than multi-dimensional (a sign of the times?).
- What's new in SQL Server 2017 (differences versus 2016)
- Changes to SQL Server 2017 installation (this blog)
- What's new in the T-SQL language in SQL Server 2017
- What's new in Integration Services 2017 (SSIS 2017)
- What's new in Reporting Services 2017 (SSRS 2017)
- What's new in Analysis Services 2017 (SSAS 2017)