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If you followed the first, second and the third post the current ppas infrastructure consists of a primary database, a hot standby database and a backup and recovery server. Now we will add the monitoring server on another host so that the system overview looks like this: server ip address purpose ppas 192.168.56.243 ppas database cluster ppasstandby 192.168.56.244 ppas hot…
A couple of weeks ago, I had an interesting discussion with one of my friend that faced a weird issue with a SQL Server instance that lacked worker threads. Because I can’t use his own information I decided to reproduce the same issue in order to share with you some interesting information. So the next part of this blog post…
In my previous blog Get SQL Server services with PowerShell, I presented you the first step of the SQL Server administration through an automated process. This blog is a follow-up of the previous one, and it will focus on retrieving information of a SQL Server instance with PowerShell Disclaimer: I am not a developer but a SQL Server dba. If…
SQL Server Configuration Manager and SQL Server Management Studio are the main tools to administrate the components of SQL Server. They are very convenient to use and pretty complete. But as soon as you wish an automated process, these tools have their limitations. Nevertheless, there is still the solution: PowerShell! This blog introduces a first step towards an automation process…
The first post in this series explained how to get ppas installed on a linux system. Now that the database cluster is up and running we should take care immediately about backup and recovery. For this I’ll use another system where I’ll install and configure bart. So, the system overview for now is: server ip address purpose ppas 192.168.56.243 ppas…
A customer asks me, how to know if In-Memory Feature is supported by my SQL Server server? An easy way is to check the edition, version etc. but now, you have directly a property for that. On msdn here, you find all property that you can search with the T-SQL Command: SERVERPROPERTY But if you try to run through all…
I did several posts around postgresql and postgres plus advanced server in the past. What is missing is a beginners guide on how to get postgres plus advanced server up and running including a solution for backup and recovery, high availability and monitoring. So I thought I’d write a guide on how to do that, consisting of: setting up postgres…
Azure DocumentDB is a documentary database service and as like its name suggests, it is aMicrosoft Azure Cloud service. Since the last summer, developers have access to this new service, and now it is available for all. The Redmond Company offers for the first time a “NoSQL” database. This is not the only service that has come; it is associated…
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft has announced at the Microsoft Ignite keynote in Chicago that SQL Server 2016 public preview will come this summer and you can be sure that at dbi services we’re looking forward to take a look at under the hood and test this next major release. Amid all the good news, here those who have…
I am looking to have all SQL Server updates on a server including Service Packs, Cumulative Updates and other fixes like we can see in the uninstall panel from Windows. I take the opportunity of this blog to remind you in a little introduction the different types of patches for SQL Server: Service Pack Service Pack, known as SP is…
By Franck Pachot . In the previous blog post I measured how inserting 1 million rows takes 5 minutes instead of 45 seconds when we commit at each row inserted. In Oracle we can improve that down to 2 minutes if we can accept (and manage) the loss of transactions following an instance crash. Let’s go further. For OLTP that…
By Franck Pachot . In the previous blog post I measured the time it takes to insert 1 million rows. About 45 seconds when done row-by-row which goes down to 7 seconds when inserted in bulk. In both case, the commit was done only at the end. But in some cases you need to commit at each row, in order…
