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Trace Flag 4199 or not in SQL Server 2016?

Some Trace Flag like T1117 and T1118 are no more needed as you can read on David’s blog. But that’s not all, you have also the T4199… What’ does the Trace Flag T4199? This Trace Flag(…)

SQL Server 2016: RTM first installation

I was very surprise with this new version of SQL Server and his installation. The first point is that we don’t need any more to install the framework .Net 3.51 manually… The second main point is the configuration of TempDB(…)

SQL Server 2005 decommissioning failed!

The support for SQL Server 2005 is no more available, so we are migrating all the latest databases running under SQL Server 2005 to SQL server 2012 or higher! Last(…)

SQL Server 2016: new tools management strategy

A lot of customer’s feedbacks are about difficulties to find easily SQL Server tools. Now, it is easier… 😉 A unified web page for SQL Server Tools The first good news is that Microsoft unified and gathered these tools(…)

SQL Server 2016: Extended Events are more powerful as Trace Flag for Backups and Restores

Before SQL Server 2016, we use Trace Flag to display information about backup and restore operations like the 3004, 3014, 3213 or 3604. Here a link to the MSDN with a great(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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.

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(…)

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(…)