SQL Server 2017 Release Candidate (RC1, full & final version) is available for download

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SQL Server 2017 Release Candidate (RC1, full & final version) is available for download

July 21, 2017 Leave a comment Go to comments

On 17th July 2017 Microsoft released the full & final Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version of SQL Server 2017.

As announced earlier with the first CTP release, the new SQL Server 2017 will run both on Windows & Linux. Not only Linux, but it will be supported on Docker, and macOS (via Docker) too.

–> Download SQL Server 2017 bits:

To download the SQL Server 2017 you can Register and Download the Full version or Free evaluation version (180 days).

Or, directly download the ISO (~1.7 GB): SQLServer2017RC1-x64-ENU.iso

–> Check version and SQL build:

select @@version

Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (RC1) – 14.0.800.90 (X64)
Jul 11 2017 07:03:16
Copyright (C) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Enterprise Evaluation Edition (64-bit) on Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0 (Build 14393: ) (Hypervisor)

–> New Features & Enhancements: This Release Candidate version is the final version of SQL Server 2017 and adds following features:

1. SQL Server on Linux supports Active Directory Authentication, which enables domain-joined clients on either Windows or Linux to authenticate to SQL Server using their domain credentials and the Kerberos protocol.

2. SQL Server on Linux can use TLS to encrypt data that is transmitted across a network between a client application and an instance of SQL Server.

3. Added more model management capabilities for R Services on Windows Server, including External Library Management. The new release also supports Native Scoring.

4. Additional DMVs, enabling dependency analysis and reporting (DISCOVER_CALC_DEPENDENCY, MDSCHEMA_MEASUREGROUP_DIMENSIONS).

5. Added support for SSIS scale out in HA environments, customers can now enable Always On for SSIS.

6. Features already rolled out in previous CTP versions:

– All new features added in SQL Server 2016 SP1, [link].

– New features added in SQL Server 2017 CTP 1.x, [link].

– New features added in SQL Server 2017 CTP 2.x, [link].

–> Videos on SQL Server 2017

– Download & Install SQL Server 2017 & SSMS on Windows

– Install SQL Server on Linux

–> References:

>> SQL Server 2017 official Page

>> Docs for SQL Server 2017