Database Administration & Monitoring, Development & Performance SQL Server 2016: TRUNCATE PARTITIONS with sliding Windows scenarios 08.10.2016 by Microsoft Team Some time ago, I had to deal with a new partitioning scenario that included sliding windows stuff for mainly archiving purpose. Regarding the customer context, I used some management scripts that include this time dropping oldest partition. We didn’t care about(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Technology Survey SQL Server 2016: Dynamic Data Masking and database role 19.09.2016 by Stéphane Savorgnano Last week, dbi services organized an event named “SQL Server 2016: what’s new?” in Lausanne, Basel and Zurich. I would take the opportunity to say again a big thank you to everyone which joined us. During my session some(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring SQL Server 2016 : Basic availability groups may fit to your HA needs 16.09.2016 by Microsoft Team In this blog let’s talk about SQL Server and availability groups in standard Edition. I had some customer questions about existing limitations and this is a good opportunity to review them on this blog post. First of(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring SQL Server AlwaysOn: new services packs and new diagnostic capabilities 18.07.2016 by Microsoft Team As you certainly know, the SQL Server 2014 SP2 has been released by Microsoft with some interesting improvements that concern SQL Server AlwaysOn and availability groups feature.
Database Administration & Monitoring SQL Server 2016: New SQL PowerShell CMDLETs for ErrorLog 14.07.2016 by Stéphane Haby With the latest release of SQL Server Management Studio(SSMS) 2016 (13.0.15500.91), downloadable here, was introduced new CMDLETs for Always Encrypted, SQL Agent and the ErrorLog. In this article, I will(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn: Direct seeding and backup considerations 12.07.2016 by Microsoft Team As promised in my prior blog post, we’ll talk now about direct seeding feature and backups. We found an interesting LIMIT_CONCURRENT_BACKUPS value for current state of the hadr_automatic_seeding_state_transition event. As said last time, this value is(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Development & Performance SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn: Direct seeding and performance considerations 08.07.2016 by Microsoft Team This blog post follows the previous one about new direct seeding feature shipped with SQL Server 2016. As a reminder, I had some doubts about using direct seeding with large databases because log stream is not(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Technology Survey SQL Server 2016: Always Encrypted – part 2 30.06.2016 by Stéphane Savorgnano In my last blog post about SQL Server 2016 Always Encrypted, here, I showed how to use this new functionality but also that you have to separate the different execution context with an Application server, a database server and(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Development & Performance, Technology Survey SQL Server 2016 – Query Store: retrieve query that doesn’t appear! 28.06.2016 by Stéphane Haby For our event SQL Server 2016 in September, I am studying the new functionality Query Store. My colleague David Barbarin have written few months ago about Query(…)
Technology Survey Trace Flag 4199 or not in SQL Server 2016? 28.06.2016 by Stéphane Haby Some Trace Flag like T1117 and T1118 are no more needed as you can read on David’s blog. But that’s not all, you have also the T4199… What’ does the Trace Flag T4199? This Trace Flag(…)