This document summarizes new features in SQL Server 2019 including: - Support for big data analytics using SQL Server, Spark, and data lakes for high volume data storage and access. - Enhanced data virtualization capabilities to combine data from multiple sources. - An integrated AI platform to ingest, prepare, train, store, and operationalize machine learning models. - Improved security, performance, and high availability features like Always Encrypted with secure enclaves and accelerated database recovery. - Continued improvements based on community feedback.