Chapter 5. Broader data access
As the cost to store data continues to drop and the number of data formats commonly used by applications continues to change, you need the ability both to manage access to historical data relationally and to seamlessly integrate relational data with semistructured and unstructured data. SQL Server 2016 includes several new features that support this evolving environment by providing access to a broader variety of data. The introduction of temporal tables enables you to maintain historical data in the database, to transparently manage data changes, and to easily retrieve data values at a particular point in time. In addition, SQL Server allows you to import JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data into relational storage, ...
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