This document summarizes new features in SQL Server 2019 including:
- Support for big data analytics using SQL Server, Spark, and data lakes for high volume data storage and access.
- Enhanced data virtualization capabilities to combine data from multiple sources.
- An integrated AI platform to ingest, prepare, train, store, and operationalize machine learning models.
- Improved security, performance, and high availability features like Always Encrypted with secure enclaves and accelerated database recovery.
- Continued improvements based on community feedback.