New features/enhancements include better comparison of execution plans, better intellisense for inline columnstore indexes and several bugfixes. In order to cope with all those new features, SSMS also got a new release – SSMS December 2015 Preview (Version 13.0.900.73). The Stretch Database feature got enhancements in it’s configuration dialogs and the stretch portal. Derived Hierarchies: Manipulation of Many-To-Many (m:n) relationships.HadoopFileSystemTask: new action CopyWithinHadoop.Kerberos authentication for Hadoop Connector.Avro File Format for HDFS File Source/Destination.Some Integration Services (SSIS) components in the context of Hadoop / Azure got enhancements and new functionality: bi-directional filtering in tabular models in SSDT.the support of Tabular Model Scripting Language (TMSL) in SQL Server Management Studio.The Power BI app for iOS was announced to be published in the App store by the end of december 2015.Īnalysis Services got several new features like In the context of Mobile BI a unique mobile access method for all types of reports was announced (for Windows, iOS and Android). In the announcement blog post Microsoft called that new tool Microsoft SQL Server Mobile Report Publisher (MSSMRP? what a nice acronym) In order to create those mobile reports a new publishing tool was announced (that will be available by the end of this year – which is quite near ). Within this preview portal you are able to view two differen types of reports – paginated reports and mobile reports (Datazen reports) side by side. In the current CTP this new portal only supports viewing (for editing and adding new reports or datasources you have to use the “old” SSRS report portal) – but this will definitely change in future releases. Mobile Reports can now be viewed side-by-side in the preview of the Reporting Services portal. You can download the latest bits from the SQL Server Evaluation Centerįor me, one of the highlights definitely are the first parts of the announced BI roadmap. Today, the latest CTP (3.2) of the upcoming SQL Server 2016 was released to the public.

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