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SQL Server 2017 represents a major step towards making SQL Server a platform that gives you choices of development languages, data types, on-premises or cloud, and operating systems by bringing the power of SQL Server to Linux, Linux-based Docker containers, and Windows.

SQL Server 2017 includes many new Database Engine features, enhancements, and performance improvements.

Resumable online index rebuild resumes an online index rebuild operation from where it stopped after a failure (such as a failover to a replica or insufficient disk space), or pauses and later resumes an online index rebuild operation.

A new generation of query processing improvements that will adapt optimization strategies to your application workload's runtime conditions. For this first version of the adaptive query processing feature family, we have three new improvements: batch mode adaptive joins, batch mode memory grant feedback, and interleaved execution for multi-statement table valued functions.

Automatic database tuning provides insight into potential query performance problems, recommends solutions, and can automatically fix identified problems.

The IDENTITY_CACHE option for ALTER DATABASE SCOPED CONFIGURATION allows you to avoid gaps in the values of identity columns if a server restarts unexpectedly or fails over to a secondary server.

Setup now allows specifying initial tempdb file size up to 256 GB (262,144 MB) per file, with a warning if the file size is set greater than 1GB with IFI not enabled.

Cross database transactions are now supported among all databases that are part of an Always On Availability Group, including databases that are part of same instance.

The Database Tuning Advisor (DTA) has additional options and improved performance.

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