SQL Server 2014

SQL Server Tips: Path of the default trace file is null

In addition of my precedent blog about this subject “SQL Server Tips: Default trace enabled but no file is active…”, I add a new case where the default path of the trace file was empty. The(…)

SQL Server Tips: Orphan database user but not so orphan…

Beginning of this year, it is good to clean up orphan users in SQL Server databases. Even if this practice must be done regularly throughout the year of course. 😉 During my cleaning day, a new case appears that(…)

SQL Server Tips: Deactivate the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP)

Before SQL Server 2016, you had the possibility to check the case “Send Windows and SQL Server Error Reports….” during the installation if you want to be a part of the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP). In SQL Server(…)

SQL Server AlwaysOn availability groups and statistic issues on secondaries

I would like to share with you an interesting issue you may face while using SQL Server AlwaysOn availability groups and secondary read-only replicas. For those who use secondary read-only replicas as reporting servers, keep reading this blog post because(…)

Neue Datenbank Konsole Befehle (DBCC) CLONEDATABASE

Sie haben es vielleicht noch nicht gesehen, aber mit den Service Pack 2 von SQL Server 2014 gibt es einen neuen DBCC Befehl: CLONEDATABASE. „DBCC CLONEDATABASE sollte Kopien eines Schemas und den Statistiken einer Produktionsdatenbank erstellen, um bei Leistungsproblemen Abfragen(…)

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: switch partition and metadata inconsistency issue

In this blog post, I would like to share with you a weird issue I faced when I implemented a sliding Windows partition scenario on SQL Server 2014 SP1 at one of my customer. The idea was to keep SQL(…)

syspolicy_purge_history job and PowerShell ExecutionPolicy

Since SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has introduced a system job called “syspolicy_purge_history”. This job is installed and enabled by default, and it contains three steps scheduled at 02:00 AM:   What is this job?(…)

Journées SQL Server 2015: Retrouvez nos sessions sur SlideShare et Youtube!

Avant de partir pour des vacances bien méritées et une année pleine d’aventures sur SQL Server, je fais un dernier petit article pour vous informer que nos sessions des Journées SQL Server 2015 sont disponible sur SlideShare et(…)

How to be sure that tempdb size is good to run a DBCC CHECKDB?

In many blogs or forums, you can read that the answer is to use the option: WITH ESTIMATEONLY. With this option, you can easily have the space estimation needed to check the database in tempdb. But be careful, only since(…)