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Yes SQL 2016 has native support for JSON, CTEs (this one has been in since 2005), and windowed functions I believe were also in 2005.

Some other massive improvements are Columnstore indexes for absolutely ridiculous OLAP data reads and compression (we are seeing 90% compression and < 1 sec instant lookup times on multi-billion-row fact tables).




What is MSSQL's replication story these days? Master/slave or master/master? Automatic failover?


Automatic failover with read-only replicas.

No master/master - that's the only thing I would consider missing compared to Oracle. It scales up, but not out. Peer to peer replication technically is master/master, but calling that clunky would be a kindness.


The short of it is that it's pretty good. They call it "Always On", and you can do both asynchronous and synchronous, with the latter offering automated failover.




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