What this book covers

Chapter 1, SQL Server 2014 and Cloud, will teach you how to make use of Microsoft Azure Storage to store the data files of your local instance databases in the cloud.

Chapter 2, Backup and Restore Improvements, will cover how to back up your database to a URL and Microsoft Azure Storage. It will also teach you to use native tools to encrypt your SQL Server backups.

Chapter 3, In-Memory Optimized Tables, explores the main new features of In-Memory OLTP, which can significantly improve performance of your transactional systems.

Chapter 4, Delayed Durability, offers the DBA the option of controlling how transactions are written to the transaction log. This setting can also significantly help improve the performance of your database.

Chapter 5, AlwaysOn Availability Groups, discusses the enhancements in AlwaysOn Availability groups and shows how you to set up a replica on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine.

Chapter 6, Performance Improvements, covers some of the other new features and enhancements that can help improve performance.