Microsoft SQL Server in practice: installation, Always On availability groups, backup and restore, performance tuning, security, PowerShell automation, SQL Server on Linux and upgrades.
In my first blog about SQL Server 2016, I noticed during the SQL Server installation process that we are able to configure the number of files for tempdb. This is surely a great improvement but at this point, you may think that the configuration of the tempdb database is finished but in fact you’re wrong. Let me say why. First…
As announced by Satya Nadella at the Microsoft Ignite keynote in Chicago, SQL Server 2016 CTP2 is finally out and it follows a previous private CTP. This CTP will provide some interesting features to evaluate as: Always Encrypted Stretch databases Operational analytics However, this CTP does not stop here and will incorporate a myriad of new features and many improvements,…
May 14th, Microsoft has released the first Service Pack (SP1) for SQL Server 2014. It is more than thirteen months after the RTM version. SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 includes all of the CU from 1 to 5. Which issues are fixed in this SP1 There are 29 hotfixes: 19 for the Engine 6 for SSRS 3 for SSAS…
Let’s continue with this series about inserting 1M rows and let’s perform the same test with a new variation by using SQL Server In-Memory features. For this blog post, I will still use a minimal configuration that consists of only 1 virtual hyper-V machine with 1 processor, 512MB of memory. In addition my storage includes VHDx disks placed on 2…
In this blog post, I will try to do the same than my colleagues about Oracle and for PostgreSQL. As a reminder, we’ve seen in my previous blog post that SQL Server is designed to commit transactions implicitly by default and inserting 1M rows in this case may have a huge impact on the transaction log throughput. Each transaction is…
I think you already have read the interesting series of blog posts of my colleagues Franck and Daniel about inserting on 1 million rows for Oracle and PostGreSQL. So it’s time to write the first of the same series concerning SQL Server. First of all, just to clarify, the idea is not to make a direct comparison between Oracle, PostGreSQL and…
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…
The end of the year approachs and soon it will be time to celebrate Christmas with your family and friends. At dbi services, we wish you a merry christmas via SQL Server with the following script, to execute in your SQL Server Management Studio for example (supported only by SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014). You will find a…
Les vidéos des sessions des journées SQL Server 2014 sont enfin en ligne: > Infrastructure et AlwaysOn > Industrialisation des audits (avec Sarah Bessard) Si vous avez des questions n’hésitez pas à me contacter par email ou par le biais des commentaires sur ce blog. Bon visionnage! By David Barbarin
Un billet en cette fin d’année qui approche à grand pas pour vous annoncer la sortie prochaine (fin décembre 2014) du livre SQL Server 2014 : Développer et administrer pour la performance en français et auquel j’ai eu l’immense plaisir de participer avec Frédéric Brouard (alias SQLPro – MVP SQL Server), Nicolas Souquet (alias Elsuket – MVP SQL Server) et…
Le plus grand événement français va bientôt avoir lieu (1 et 2 décembre) à Paris et il vous reste encore une semaine pour vous y inscrire! Pensez également à commander votre lunch box, ce qui peut être pratique si vous voulez manger 🙂 Pour ma part j’aurai l’occasion d’ouvrir le bal et de vous retrouver au cours d’une session…
I had the opportunity to attend the IT Pro day at the Microsoft Techdays in Lausanne. Let me give you a few insights on my day there. Being a SharePoint specialist but also ramping up on Microsoft SQL Server I tried to balance between SQL and SharePoint related sessions. BYOD As usual, the day started with a Keynote focusing on…
