Summary

In this chapter, you got a review of the SQL Server features for developers that exist in the previous versions. You can see that this support goes well beyond basic SQL statements, and also beyond pure Transact-SQL.

The recapitulation in this chapter is also useful as an introduction to the new features in SQL Server 2016 covered in Chapter 4, Transact-SQL Enhancements, Chapter 5, JSON Support in SQL Server, Chapter 7, Temporal Tables, and Chapter 13, Supporting R in SQL Server.