Mike Austin explains how SQL Server 2019 evolved to support containers and data lakes, areas once dominated by Oracle and IBM DB2. He calls one licensing slide an "eye chart" to show how much the product has shifted.
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And then in 2019 version, they've made some big changes, right? So now they've. They're looking at working with some of the newer technologies out there. So you can now put SQL and containers and Dockers and things like that. But the big thing is their big data play that they have with it. So this slide is sort of just an eye chart, really. But the key thing that I want to get across here is that SQL has really evolved and we are seeing things where people are using it to create data lakes and things like that that primarily in past were probably more the domain of Oracle and maybe IBM DB2.