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SQL Server 2016: the Time Travel with temporal table – Part III

SELECT command In this article, I present the last command SELECT. I divide my article into 4 parts to be clearer and easier to read: Part I – Principle & Creation Part II – INSERT, UPDATE & DELETE commands Part III – SELECT command Part IV – Maintenance & Metadata SQL Server version/built used for this serie of articles is… 

SQL Server 2016: the Time Travel with temporal table – Part II

INSERT, UPDATE & DELETE commands After the introduction and the table creation, in this second part, I present the 3 important commands INSERT, UPDATE & DELETE. I divide my article into 4 parts to be clearer and easier to read: Part I – Principle & Creation Part II – INSERT, UPDATE & DELETE commands Part III – SELECT command Part… 

SQL Server 2016: the Time Travel with temporal table – Part I

Principle & Creation Microsoft create in SQL server 2016 a new feature temporal table, based on the latest edition of the SQL standard: SQL:2011. If you want read more about this standard, click here. I divide my article into 4 parts to be clearer and easier to read: Part I – Principle & Creation Part II – INSERT, UPDATE &… 

SQL Server, Integration Services and Package Versions

A lot of people ask me about the different versions of SQL Server Integration Services and packages. I create rapidly this little table to summarize it: With SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2, the SSIS version is the same than SQL Server Integration Services 10.0. With SQL Server 2005, the SSIS version is not contained in the service name. To… 

SQL Server Tips: Logical names don’t match with physical files names

During a copy of a database from an environment to another (from Production to pre-production for instance), people usually don’t changed the logical name of the data or log files when they rename the database and the physical file names. In my test environment, I create 2 copies of AdventureWorks and you can see that the logical name is the… 

SQL Server 2016 CTP2: Stretch database feature – Part 2

In my previous blog SQL Server 2016 CTP2: Stretch database feature – Part 1, I explained how to prepare your instance and your database to enable the Stretch feature for your table. Now I present you how to enable the feature for your tables! Prerequisites Enabling Stretch Database at the table level requires ALTER permissions on this table.   Limitations… 

SQL Server 2016: native support for JSON

A lot of discussions and most important, a feature requests in the Microsoft connect site here with more than 1000 votes is the origin of this new feature in SQL Server 2016. A lot of NoSQL have already this function and PostgreSQL for example have the json_extract_path_text functionality and you can at every time ask my colleague Daniel Westermann one of… 

SQL Server 2016 CTP2: Stretch database feature – Part 1

SQL Server 2016 CTP 2 has introduced some interesting new features such as Always Encrypted, Stretch database, the configuration of the tempdb in the SQL Server installation, aso… Regarding the configuration of the tempdb in SQL Server 2016 CTP 2, I recommend you a good article called SQL Server 2016 CTP2 : first thoughts about tempdb database from David Barbarin.… 

SharePoint Governance? Why?

Companies are struggling with SharePoint. It’s been installed, and abandoned. Business stuff is not drove to make SharePoint succeed. From this point you need to dress up a governance for SharePoint. Governance focuses on the technology, business and human side of SharePoint. What is GOVERNANCE? Governance is the set of: policies roles responsibilities processes that help and drive Companie’s IT… 

Ways to improve your SharePoint Intranet

World today is changing in companies using different path to get better communication with their staff, to boost productivity, improve the effectiveness of the strategy and business direction. SharePoint has become a reference’s tool regarding this point, however, many organizations still struggling to get the most out of the features it offers and find it difficult to increase adoption. In… 

Because SharePoint 2013 has also limitations!

WHAT IS?  Boundaries: are Static limits that cannot be exceeded by design. An example of a boundary is the 2 GB document size limit.  Thresholds: are configurable limits that can be exceeded to accommodate specific  requirements. A good example is the document size limit.  Supported limits: are configurable limits that have been set by default to a tested value. An… 

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. Which issues are fixed in this SP1 There are 29 hotfixes: 19 for the Engine 6 for SSRS 3 for SSAS…