What you need for this book

This book was written using SQL Server 2016 and all the examples and functions should work with it. Other tools you may need are Visual Studio 2015, SQL Data Tools 16 or higher and SQL Server Management Studio 17 or later. 

In addition to that, you will need Hortonworks Sandbox Docker for Windows Azure account and Microsoft Azure.

The last chapter of this book has been written using SQL Server 2017.