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SQL Server 2016: IF EXISTS is included in the DROP command

With SQL Server 2016, I’m nicely surprised by the addition of IF EXISTS directly in the T-SQL command DROP. Before this new option, all queries are written with IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys….) DROP object. I have quickly tested(…)

GoldenGate – Error during a register extract

This week, I tried to install a GoldenGate environment to make some test. The installation was good and simple. Firstly I tested the normal capture mode and all worked correctly. In a second time, I wanted try to use the(…)

AWR when ASH CPU >> DB CPU

By Franck Pachot . I'll present How to read an AWR report next month at UKOUG TECH15 and the first recommendation after checking Average Active Sessions is to verify that we are not in a CPU starvation situation. Here is(…)

SQL Server Collation for System Center Products

A customer asks me, what is the collation for System Center products? Do we have a general collation for all products? And what is the BP for Tempdb? And how work the licencing for SQL Server in(…)

RMAN channels in RAC

By Franck Pachot . When you want to minimize the backup or restore duration, you can parallelize RMAN operations by allocating multiple channels. If you are in cluster, you can open channels from several nodes. Let's see why, how, and(…)

ADTS 7.2 And Doc10 Office plugin

When we upgraded our ADTS 6.7 SP2 into 7.2 we realized how great the new version was! Intro The 7.2 version changed its entire structure and cleared many useless dependencies such as Adlib. Now every files and configurations are stored(…)

Dbvisit replicate allows DDL replication even when source and destination have different structure

By Franck Pachot . I've tested a little thing for a customer, and as usual I spool the result into a blog post in case it helps others. Not all replication software - at least in their current version -(…)

SQL Server 2016: JSON support updated with SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.0!

For last week, the SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 3.0 has been available with a lot of enhancements on new features. All info about CTP3 are on SQL Server Blog here. I(…)

Journées SQL Server 2015 à Paris – 30 novembre et 1er décembre

Les journées SQL Server se dérouleront dans un mois à Paris dans les locaux de Microsoft. L’agenda n’a été qu’en parte dévoilé mais c’est avec plaisir que je peux dores et déjà vous annoncer(…)

IBM Bluemix Database Cloud Service – My first trial

By Franck Pachot . Remember my first try of Oracle cloud when Larry Ellison announced the Cloud in june? This week at OOW15 Larry Ellison announced that IBM is not a competitor anymore for them, then(…)