Stéphane Haby has more than 20 years of experience in Microsoft solutions, specializing in the installation, migration, best practices, and performance analysis of Microsoft SQL Server, as well as Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions (SharePoint, Office) and .NET development for the banking sector. A former Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and early adopter of Microsoft Team System in France, he has authored several technical articles. He holds Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) and Expert (MCSE) for SQL Server, MCTS, MCITP for SQL Server 2008, and ITIL V3 Foundation certifications. His industry experience covers chemicals and pharma, banking, and financial services.
A lot of customer’s feedbacks are about difficulties to find easily SQL Server tools. Now, it is easier… 😉 A unified web page for SQL Server Tools The first good news is that Microsoft unified and gathered these tools for SQL Server on a single web page: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt238365.aspx As DBA, this page is absolutely to be marked in your browser.…
Before SQL Server 2016, we use Trace Flag to display information about backup and restore operations like the 3004, 3014, 3213 or 3604. Here a link to the MSDN with a great SQL Server trace flag list SQL Server 2016 provides 2 new Extended Events: backup_restore_progress_trace database_backup_restore_throughput backup_restore_progress_trace will give detailed information during the backup process and restore operation database_backup_restore_throughput…
Since this year, Microsoft recommends to install Cumulative Updates (CU) like Service Packs (SP) In the past, Microsoft always recommended to apply the Service Packs and security fixes for SQL Server. Cumulative Updates were applied only if you had a specific problem in order to resolve it. Now, we need to follow a new rule: “ Microsoft recommends ongoing, proactive…
After the good article “A short glance at Attunity replicate” from Franck Pachot, I will continue to explain our test on Attunity Replicate with datatype and how this tool do the mapping between Oracle and SQL Server for numeric datatypes. Introduction The first step is to find the mapping between Oracle and SQL Server. I summarize this mapping in this…
In my last article, I wrote about the R Services into SQL Server. Now, Microsoft provides an open source R platform to complete this new SQL Server integrated feature in 2016. On the Microsoft Website, you can download directly R Server 2016 for different operating systems: Windows of course SUSE Linux Red Hat Linux Version for Hadoop on Red Hat…
I was during a long time captivated by the R programming language. I’m happy to see that SQL Server 2016 provides now a SQL Server R Services. This service enables SQL Server to execute R scripts. The first step is to install the R Services during the installation of SQL Server. As you can see on the picture, you have…
This month, the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) for SQL Server is available. With this new version, you can now use the “CREATE TABLE” command for Stretch Databases. If you read the msdn page from CREATE TABLE for SQL Server 2016, you can see these options: The first step is to enable the functionality for the database “AdventureWorksDW2012” To enable the…
I write this article because it is very interesting to see that the upgrade advisor has evolved… Recently (February 11, 2016), a new version is available: Microsoft® SQL Server 2016® Upgrade Advisor Preview 1.4 The msi package is 10 MB and is named SqlAdvisor. Run the msi and follow the steps like every time… After the installation, it is easy…
A customer asks me to find all sql logins enabled on servers where windows authentication only is enabled. The goal is to clean sql logins on all servers through the CMS (central management server). In some cases, sql logins are created even if the authentication is set to “Windows authentication only mode”. I think that this query is interesting and…
I discover a strange error with a customer about the default trace. As you know, SQL Server has a default trace with a lot of events like the data and log file growth. This trace is enabled by default and you have five .trc files located in the installation directory of SQL Server. In my case, I search through the…
In SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.0, temporal tables with In-Memory OLTP is supported. 🙂 At the JSS2015 (Journée SQL Server 2015), I have presented a little demo about temporal table with a table In-Memory. This article is a complement of my presentation and a good add to my series of Temporal Table. My first step is to create the temporal…
Avant de partir pour des vacances bien méritées et une année pleine d’aventures sur SQL Server, je fais un dernier petit article pour vous informer que nos sessions des Journées SQL Server 2015 sont disponible sur SlideShare et Youtube. Un grand merci à l’équipe du GUSS pour l’organisation et leur confiance en nous. N’hésitez pas à aller également évaluer nos…
