Recently, at a customer site, I discovered the Attunity connector 1.1 for Oracle. The customer uses this connector to transfer data from Oracle to SQL Server using Integration Services (SSIS) and informed me that performances are greatly improved. So I decided to post a blog about this connector and perform a benchmark between Attunity connector and Microsoft OLE DB provider
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In my precedent article, I announce you the first fix for SQL Server 2012.
One week after, the first cumulative update is downloadable on Microsoft website for SQL Server 2012.
As we approach the release of version of SQL Server 2012, I think a little article about the Licencing is appropriate.
I decided to take some times in this cold February’s month to continue this small series. This time, I’m going to speak about Reporting Services (SSRS) and these new features.
Like my other article “SQL Server 2012: New features on Integration Services (SSIS)“, this article presents a summary from new features and enhancements for SQL 2012 Reporting Services.
Since the third CTP version of SQL Server 2012 codename Denali, you have some features available to provide an additional value for Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 like the other SQL Server versions. This Feature Pack or Manageability Tool Kit are available but are not the final version. I have compiled all information in this blog to find it easily.
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We looked forward to and it has finally arrived…
Since Friday, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Release Candidate 0 is online.
Dynamic management views (DMVs) return server state information that can be used to monitor the health of a server instance, diagnose problems and tune performance.
Since few months, I test the future new version SQL Server 2012 codename Denali and I was very surprised form the news DMVs from this version.
I will just explain some DMVs very interesting for
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During our test to create a failover clustering with the new function ‘AlwaysOn High Availability’, we had a few difficulties to overcome like the restoring of databases of the secondary cluster node.
In this article, we will just explain you how to avoid it before you encounter the problem.
dbi services search and test all tools or functions possible to optimize or to win something to propose the best tuning possible in their client.
The property of Spare columns is not the most used in client environment that we have seen.
This article present a script to find the potential columns that can have the sparse property with the
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In my experience, I have seen many clients do not know how to do when they have multiple databases instances and Integration Servicet for manage the end of the instance that is the reference for Integration Services.
When Integration Service is installed with the instance “TOTO” and that it is at the end of his life, we’ll see how to
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By dbi services, we are a few poeples passionate by diving.
We take this opportunity to let you dive into the two databases lakes Oracle and SQL server and see their similarities and differences. For this first level of diving (named ODD), we will not going too deep and not have narcosis or
databases toxicity.
As always, we’ll start with
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SQL server 2008 has PowerShell and at the end of this article, I speak of this topic but to use correctly Powershell, you must have a basic notion about this technologie.
In microsoft Techdays in Basel, Marc van Orsouw presents Powershell.
I think it was a nice opportunity to presents you an overview of Powershell based on this
presentation with
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