SQL Server 2012: RTM now available
The so called Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version of SQL Server 2012 now is available.
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SQL Server 2012: new features for Reporting Services (SSRS)
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.
SQL Server 2012: new features for Integration Services (SSIS)
Like the others products of SQL server 2012, Integration Services has a lot of new features and enhancements.
SQL Server 2012: Feature Pack
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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Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 and database policies
I have seen at a customer that the SQL Server’s policy doesn’t follow the Microsoft’s recommendations about antivirus and databases(kb 309422), such excluding *.mdf,*.ndf and *.ldf files. In addition the policy for Oracle doesn’t exist in case of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 known as FEP 2010.
I have decided to create databases policies for FEP optimized by dbi
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SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB RC0 is Available
Since a few days, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Express LocalDB Release Candidate 0 is online.
SQL Server 2012 ‘Denali’: the Release Candidate is available
We looked forward to and it has finally arrived…
Since Friday, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Release Candidate 0 is online.
SQL Server 2012 ‘Denali’: a new panel of DMVs
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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SQL Server 2012 ‘Denali’ : AlwaysOn High Availability – Restore is blocked
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.
