Development & Performance

SP2 for SQL Server 2016 is available with new helpful DMVs

Last month (April 24, 2018), the Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2016 was released and distributed. This Service Pack has new DMVs, already available in SQL Server 2017 RTM.

Deploy a Cloudera cluster with Terraform and Ansible in Azure – part 2

In this part of the blog posts series, we will show how ansible helps us to configure our cluster and install all pre-requisite needed for Cloudera Manager. Ansible is one of the most important automation tools currently. Ansible will help(…)

SQL Server 2017: Can I run a “standard” rebuild on the index after a Resumable Online Index Rebuild is suspended?

This article is an additional article to my precedent about “SQL Server 2017: What’s happens with an interruption during a Resumable Online Index Rebuild?”(…)

SQL Server 2017: What’s happens with an interruption during a Resumable Online Index Rebuild?

Last week, I presented this option in our internal event, the dbi xChange. My colleague David Barbarin asked me this question, what’s append if an interruption occurs (reboot, SQL Server service stopped,…) during a Resumable(…)

Connect-times to the DB suddenly become very slow using sqlcl

I recently wrote a couple of sql-scripts which had to run on all of my customer’s DBs. The sql-scripts had to be started from a Linux-client, which does not have any Oracle client software installed. So I thought of using(…)

Running the Oracle Client on a Raspberry Pi

What are the possibilities to use a Raspberry Pi computer as an Oracle client? Besides other things I’ll show a possibility in this Blog to run the fat/thick Oracle Client on a Raspberry Pi! REMARK: All examples below(…)

SQL Server 2017: TRIM not only a replacement of RTRIM and LTRIM

Last month, I present in the IT-Tage 2017 in Frankfurt am Main, a session about SQL Server 2017 overview. During my session I made a demo on one of the new string T-SQL Commands:(…)

APEX Connect 2017 – Day 3

For the last conference day, after the Keynote about “JavaScript: The next Language YOU should learn” by Dan McGhan , I decided to attend presentations on following topics: – Upgrade your APEX app with zero downtime by using EBR(…)

APEX Connect 2017 – Day 2

After the Keynote about “Oracle Application Express – Ahead of it’s time. Leading the way forward” by Joel Kallmann (Director of Software Development for APEX) and some overall presentation about Development with APEX 5.1, I decided to attend presentations on(…)

SQL Server 2017: first steps with Python Service

Last year, I written blogs about SQL Server 2016 and his integration from the R language. Just for information, you can find these blogs about SQL Server 2016 R Services here: SQL(…)