Technology Survey

SCOM: Creation of a group in order to subscribe to alerts

I am currently managing at one of my customer a monitoring project that concerns SQL Server instances and SCOM (System Center Operation Manager). The project includes many instances, more or less 50, divided in two environment (Production and Test) and(…)

SQL Server 2016: R Services

I was during a long time captivated by the R programming language. I’m happy to see that SQL Server 2016 provides now a SQL Server R Services. This service enables SQL Server to execute R scripts. The first(…)

MVP Data Platform renewed and next SQL Saturday event at Paris

The last 1th April 2016, I got my 6th MVP Data Platform renewal (not an april’s fool for sure). This is definitely a good news and I would like to thanks again Microsoft for its interest.

SQL Server 2016: CREATE TABLE for Stretch Database is available

This month, the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) for SQL Server is available. With this new version, you can now use the “CREATE TABLE” command for Stretch Databases. If you read the msdn page(…)

SQL Server 2016: new upgrade advisor

I write this article because it is very interesting to see that the upgrade advisor has evolved… Recently (February 11, 2016), a new version is available: Microsoft® SQL Server 2016® Upgrade Advisor Preview 1.4 The msi package(…)

About SSH keys in Oracle Public Cloud

When working with resources on the Oracle public cloud, whatever it is IaaS or PaaS, the principle access method is based on SSH keys exchange. Once our instance is created this is going to be the first and only way(…)

SQL Server 2016: temporal table with In-Memory

In SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.0, temporal tables with In-Memory OLTP is supported. 🙂 At the JSS2015 (Journée SQL Server 2015), I have presented a little demo about temporal table with a table(…)

Journées SQL Server 2015: Retrouvez nos sessions sur SlideShare et Youtube!

Avant de partir pour des vacances bien méritées et une année pleine d’aventures sur SQL Server, je fais un dernier petit article pour vous informer que nos sessions des Journées SQL Server 2015 sont disponible sur SlideShare et(…)

SQL Server 2016: new T-SQL commands COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS

In live from the JSS2015 (Journée SQL Server 2015) in Paris, we saw that the CTP3.1 has been available in the night of these 2 days. One new feature available for this release in the T-SQL(…)

Windows Server 2016: Containers

One of the new feature which will come with Windows Server 2016 is the Containers. Microsoft made available its fourth technical preview of his Windows Server 2016 platform  some days ago. This new Technical Preview brings with it and for(…)