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AWS re:invent 2018 – Day 1

Yesterday was my first day at AWS re:Invent conference. The venue is quite impressive, the conference is split between 6 hotels where you can attend different types of sessions including chalk talk, keynotes, hands-on labs or workshop. For my first day,(…)

AWS re:invent 2018 warm up

The Cloud is now part of our job so we have to get a deeper look on the available services to understand and take best advantage of them. The annual AWS conference re:invent has started tonight in The Venetian at Las(…)

SQL Pass Summit 2018: SQL Server 2019 features coming soon!

It’s the 20th anniversary of the event and the keynote today was amazing (see the blog from Christophe) for different reasons but the more important is that is every time better people. Not(…)

SQL server security pre-conference @SQL Pass Summit 2018 in Seattle

After long hours of flights, Christophe Cosme and I finally arrived in Seattle at the SQL PASS Summit 2018. We picked up our badge and bag and now we are ready to begin… This first day for me(…)

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(…)

GDPR compliant by installing software editors tools?

GDPR goals and scope In few months (25 May 2018) the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be in force and will replace the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. His goals are to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, to(…)

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:(…)