SQL Server

SQL Server Tips: How many different datetime are in my column and what the delta?

Few months ago, a customer asks me for finding in a column, how many rows exist with the same date & time and the delta between them. The column default value  is based on the function(…)

SQL Server Tips: Drop a database-user attached to a service…

Few weeks ago, I have a little issue when I try to drop a database-user without login Unfortunately, I do a little mistake at the beginning… I receive like every morning a report if all AD logins (computers, groups,(…)

Running SQL Server containers on K8s Docker for Windows CE stable channel

The release of Docker for Windows Stable version 18.06..0-ce-win70 comes with some great new features I looked for a while including the K8s support! That’s a pretty good news because this support has existed on Edge channel since(…)

SQL Server on Linux – I/O internal thoughts

Let’s start the story from the beginning with some funny testing I tried to perform with SQL Server on Linux a couple of months ago. At that time, I wanted to get some pictures of syscalls from SQL Server as(…)

SQL Saturday Paris 2018 – Pré-conférence SQL Server Linux, Docker et Azure

The next SQL Saturday in Paris is coming soon and the agenda has been published by the @GUSS on twitter. Le prochain SQL Saturday Paris arrive bientôt et l’agenda a été publié sur Twitter par le @GUSS(…)

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.

SQL Server Security: Are your databases ready for the GDPR?

The GDRP (General Data Protection Regulation), voted in 2016, will be applied in the European Union soon (May 25, 2018). We heard a lot of this new directive. The goal is to improve the protection and confidentiality of personally(…)

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(…)

SQL Server Tips: an orphan user owns a database role

A few days ago, I conduct an audit to detect all orphan’s windows accounts in a database and I was surprise to have an error during the drop user query.   The first step is to find all orphan’s windows(…)