SQL 2017 is a relational database management system (RDBMS) from Microsoft. It is the successor to SQL Server 2016 and was released in October 2017. SQL 2017 includes a number of new features and improvements, including support for:
- Online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP) workloads
- In-memory tables and indexes
- Columnstore indexes
- JSON support
- Graph data
SQL 2017 also includes a number of performance improvements, such as: