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SQL Server 2016 RTM – Coming soon!

The first RTM release of SQL Server 2016 will be released soon. It’s official now! Indeed, Microsoft announced here the SQL Server 2016 RTM release being generally available for use the 1st June 2016. What does(…)

SQL Server: Now Cumulative Updates (CU) need to be install!

 Since this year, Microsoft recommends to install Cumulative Updates (CU) like Service Packs (SP) In the past, Microsoft always recommended to apply the Service Packs and security fixes for SQL Server. Cumulative Updates were applied only if(…)

Connecting your PostgreSQL instance to a Microsoft SQL Server instance

In the last posts I looked at how you can connect Oracle and MariaDB/MySQL to a PostgreSQL instance. In this post I'll do the same with a MS SQL Server instance.

GoldenGate Studio 12.2 – Installation

Today I will present you the new product GoldenGate Studio which was announced at the last Oracle Open World. This product allows to design the replication flows and deploy a solution with a graphical tool. Download The first step is(…)

Interested in the most advanced open source database? Where you can meet us in June …

Are you interested in what PostgreSQL can do for you? You can join us at the following events in June:(…)

Adaptive Plan: How much can STATISTICS COLLECTOR buffer?

By Franck Pachot . The 12c adaptive plan prepares two join methods (Hash Join and Nested Loop), actives the one that has the better cost for the estimated cardinality and computes the point of inflection in cardinality estimation where the(…)

Attunity Replicate: Replicate numeric data types from Oracle to SQL Server is easy

After the good article “A short glance at Attunity replicate” from Franck Pachot, I will continue to explain our test on Attunity Replicate with datatype and how this(…)

xPlore list all ids from xhive

I went into a case that I found a kid of ‘Ghost’ index which I may present in another blog. But to summarize I had to get the full list of indexes from the xPlore server. The problem is(…)

SQL Server 2016: Microsoft R Server

In my last article, I wrote about the R Services into SQL Server. Now, Microsoft provides an open source R platform to complete this new SQL Server integrated feature in 2016.

When a query has read 350TB after 73K nested loops

By Franck Pachot . According that you have Tuning Pack, SQL Monitor is the right way to see what a query is currently doing. A query was running for days and the first figure I see is that it has(…)