For this end of the year, I decided to present you the new permissions on SQL Server 2012. How to have a list of all permissions ? It’s very simple with this query: SELECT * FROM sys.fn_builtin_permissions(”) SQL 2008 R2 SQL 2012 With this comparison, you can see that there are 19 new permissions in SQL Server 2012. To have a great…
A couple of days ago (20 November 2012), Microsoft rolled out the first cumulative update (CU1) for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1). It’s just two weeks after the release of the first Service Pack (SP1) we are talking about here. What this first CU for SQL Server 2012 SP1 features: This CU1 contains 44 hotfixes: 33 for the…
I recently had the chance to go through a so called Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server (SQLRAP) at one of our clients. The SQLRAP assesses your SQL Server implementations to ensure proper productive use. It is an excellent opportunity to review the best practices and perform a validation of your client environment by a Microsoft SQL Server Engineer.…
I have recently read that PowerPivot and Power View are natively present in Office 2013 and especially in Excel 2013. I found this fun and decided to install the preview of Office 2013!:-D First, what are PowerPivot and Power View? PowerPivot is an add-on to Excel which is used for adding and integrating large amounts of data in Excel workbooks.…
In my life prior to SQL Server, I worked with Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). The “Schema and Data Comparison” feature of SQL Server 2012 Data Tools is a direct descendant of Visual Studio for Databases Professionnals (aka Data Dude) included in VSTS. What is SQL Server Data Tools? These new tools replace BIDS (Business Intelligence Development Studio). But they…
I recently talked to a customer about SnapManager, its recommendation on the number of databases and about a way to prevent the creation of more than 35 databases. The NetApp recommendation is no more than 35 databases on a single volume. The reason is that SQL Server has to use 4-5 worker threads per database in order to manage the…
This week, the third cumulative update was made available on the Microsoft website. What is in this CU for SQL Server 2012? This CU has 36 hotfixes: 25 for the engine 1 for SSAS 4 for SSIS 6 for SSRS To have more information and download it, click here Historic of SQL Server 2012 If you update your SQL Server…
For this last day (
) of the TechEd 2012, I going to present the new certification cycle for dba who wants to be certified for SQL Server 2012. But before, let’s start with a brief introduction on Enterprise Information Management, also called EIM
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.
It’s just a little blog to announce you that the first fix for SQL Server 2012 came out last week on Easter Break.
As we approach the release of version of SQL Server 2012, I think a little article about the Licencing is appropriate.
Recently, during my many missions, a client asked me to give access rights to the SQL Server Logs from SSMS to his application managers.
As you know, you must give the role “securityadmin” to have such rights but with this role you can also manage logins, CREATE DATABASEs and change passwords.
This is “too many rights” for
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