Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management SQL Server Tips: Path of the default trace file is null 28.01.2020 by Stéphane Haby 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(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management SQL Server Tips: Orphan database user but not so orphan… 21.01.2020 by Stéphane Haby 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(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, SQL Server SQL Server Temporal Table – How to store a history table in another file? 12.03.2019 by Stéphane Haby Few days ago, a customer asks me if it is possible to move the history table to slower but cheaper storage. The question behind this is whether it is possible to create a history table on a separate filegroup(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, SQL Server, Technology Survey SQL server security pre-conference @SQL Pass Summit 2018 in Seattle 07.11.2018 by Stéphane Haby After long hours of flights, Christophe Cosme and I finally arrived in Seattle at the SQL PASS Summit 2018. We picked up our badge and bag and now we are ready to begin… This first day for me(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Development & Performance, SQL Server, Technology Survey SP2 for SQL Server 2016 is available with new helpful DMVs 11.05.2018 by Stéphane Haby Last month (April 24, 2018), the Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2016 was released and distributed. This Service Pack has new DMVs, already available in SQL Server 2017 RTM.
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, SQL Server SQL Server Tips: Deactivate the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) 07.11.2017 by Stéphane Haby 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(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management SQL Server 2016: New Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) 29.09.2017 by Stéphane Haby In SQL Server 2016, you will discover a lot of new Dynamic Management Views(DMVs). In this article, I will just give you a little overview of these useful views for us as DBA. SQL Server 2012 has 145 DMVs(…)
Technology Survey One-day workshop with Slava Oks for SQL Server on Linux 13.07.2017 by Stéphane Haby Few weeks ago, David Barbarin and I went to the Tugar IT in Lisbon to follow the workshop from Slava Oks: Bringing SQL Server to Linux: Experience(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management Migration to SQL Server 2016 with deprecated data types and Full-Text 11.07.2017 by Stéphane Haby A few weeks ago, I prepared a migration from SQL Server 2008 to SQL server 2016, I came across a case with deprecated data types and a Full-Text activated on these columns. To simulate this scenario, I downloaded and(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management SQL Server 2016: patching CU with R Services 11.07.2017 by Stéphane Haby As a good DBA, I begin to be up to date with all Cumulative Update (CU) by my customers. It is the first time that I run an update for SQL Server 2016 with the CU 3. I(…)