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SQL Server 2014: First Service pack (SP1) is available

May 14th, Microsoft has released the first Service Pack (SP1) for SQL Server 2014. It is more than thirteen months after the RTM version. SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 includes all of the CU from 1 to 5.

Sharepoint and Nintex Workflow: automate your Business Processes

  What is a WORKFLOW? A workflow is the representation of an operation sequence, declared as work of a person or group, an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. These mechanisms could be automated(…)

Variations on 1M rows insert (3): using SQL Server In-Memory features

Let’s continue with this series about inserting 1M rows and let’s perform the same test with a new variation by using SQL Server In-Memory features. For this blog post, I will still use a minimal configuration that consists of only(…)

Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) format in PostgreSQL

Nowadays everybody is talking about columnar storage format. What can PostgreSQL do in this area? There is no native support for that in PostgreSQL but thanks to the fact that PostgreSQL is highly extensible there is a(…)

Migration of QlikView Services

QlikView is a product of the software company named Qlik (previously known as QlikTech) which was designed to provide business intelligence & visualization capabilities using reports or dashboards. The QlikView solution is in fact composed of some components just like(…)

tmux – an alternative to screen

You may already use screen for multiplexing a terminal. This is especially useful when you want to start long running processes on a server and do not want to loose the connection because of a ssh connection timeout,(…)

Kerberos configuration for DFS 6.7 SP1

In my last post, I explained how to configure Kerberos for a CS 6.7 SP1. Unfortunately if you only configure the Content Server, it will almost be useless… If you want this configuration to be useful, then(…)

does impdb into a compressed table really compress data?

Today at a customer we discussed the following scenario: To refresh a test database a datapump export and import was implemented. To save space on the test system the idea came up to compress the data on the test system.

Using VSS snapshots with SQL Server – part I

  This is probably a series of blog posts about some thoughts concerning VSS snapshots with database servers. Let’s begin with this first story: Some time ago, I implemented a backup strategy at one of my customers based on FULL(…)

News SharePoint 2016: new alternative to InfoPath Forms

Microsoft announced in January 2015 that it was the END OF INFOPATH, that the 2013 version would be the last one. However, Microsoft updated the Infopath 2013 app will work with SharePoint Server 2016. Following the new users(…)