SQL Server

SQL Server on Oracle Cloud

By Franck Pachot . You can create a VM with SQL Server running in the Oracle Cloud. This is easy with a few clicks on the marketplace: Here are the steps I did above: Oracle(…)

SQL Server: High SQLCONNECTIONPOOL Memory Clerk consumption

In this blog post, I will show you what I did to troubleshoot an interesting problem with Memory on SQL Server. It all started with a job performing DBCC CHECKDB on all databases taking hours to complete instead of 10(…)

SQL Server Installation Wizard error : Failed to retrieve data for this request

Today I faced a strange issue when I tried to install a new SQL Server instance : Failed to retrieve data for this request This error occurred just after clicking on “New SQL Server stand-alone installation…”(…)

SQL Server: Change Availability Group Endpoint Ownership

I’m doing some cleaning on my customer’s instances. I want to delete the login of a previous DBA for 2 reasons; this person does not work anymore in my customer’s company and all DBA are members of a group(…)

Create and configure an Oracle linked server in SQL Server Instance

What is Linked server ? Now a days in each company we have different applications and each one of them have different needs in term of databases support. When data exists on multiple databases the management become a little bit(…)

DBPod – le podcast Bases de Données

By Franck Pachot . J’essaie quelque chose de nouveau. Je publie beaucoup en anglais (blog, articles, présentations) mais cette fois quelque chose de 100% francophone. En sortant du confinement, on reprend les transports (train, voiture,…) et c’est l’occasion de(…)

The myth of NoSQL (vs. RDBMS) “joins dont scale”

By Franck Pachot . I’ll reference Alex DeBrie article “SQL, NoSQL, and Scale: How DynamoDB scales where relational databases don’t“, especially the paragraph about “Why relational databases don’t scale”. But(…)

AWS – RDS – SQL Server Native backups

Introduction RDS provide automatic backup feature. This feature will backup the entire RDS instance. As a DBA sometimes you need to backup individual database, they are many reason for that (legal, migration, replication,…). Unfortunately individual database backups are not available(…)

Introduction to Azure SQL Database Auto-failover groups

SQL Azure Database by default offers a 99.99% availability SLA across all its service tiers. This means that for any database, the downtime should not exceed 52 minutes per year. Using Zone redundancy increases availability to 99.995% which is(…)

How to create an Azure SQL Database using Azure PowerShell

In this blog post, I’ll go through the steps to create an Azure SQL Database using Azure PowerShell. Introduction to Azure SQL Database The SQL database services provided by Microsoft on the cloud are now grouped under the(…)