This blog post comes from an interesting experience with one customer about upgrading SQL Server on a Docker environment. Let’s set quickly the context: a production environment that includes a standalone Docker engine on the top of openSUSE Linux distribution with some SQL Server 2017 Linux containers. The deal was to update those SQL Server instances from 2017 CU1 to…
The GDRP (General Data Protection Regulation), voted in 2016, will be applied in the European Union soon (May 25, 2018). We heard a lot of this new directive. The goal is to improve the protection and confidentiality of personally identifiable information for every European citizen. Quid of Switzerland? Read the article of Gregory here. A personal data is information that…
This article is an additional article to my precedent about “SQL Server 2017: What’s happens with an interruption during a Resumable Online Index Rebuild?” The goal is to see after I suspend the rebuild, if I can run a traditional rebuild without the option RESUME. I start an index rebuild with the option Resumable: ALTER INDEX [NCI_dbo_Transaction] ON [dbo].[Transaction]…
Last week, I presented this option in our internal event, the dbi xChange. My colleague David Barbarin asked me this question, what’s append if an interruption occurs (reboot, SQL Server service stopped,…) during a Resumable Online Index Rebuild? I was not able to answer because I forgot to do this test. The new enhancement for an index rebuild provides the…
Let’s continue with this blog post series about SQL Server and Docker. A couple of days ago, I was in a customer shop that already implemented SQL Server 2017 on Linux as Docker containers. It was definitely a very interesting day with a lot of customer experience and feedbacks. We discussed with him about lot of architecture scenarios. The interesting…
SQL Server 2017 is available on multiple platforms: Windows, Linux and Docker. The latter provides containerization features with no lengthy setup and special prerequisites before running your SQL Server databases which are probably the key success of adoption for developers. It was my case as developer for our DMK management kit which provide to our customers a SQL Server database…
Last month, I present in the IT-Tage 2017 in Frankfurt am Main, a session about SQL Server 2017 overview. During my session I made a demo on one of the new string T-SQL Commands: TRIM. My demo was very simple but I have also 2 very good questions. Before, I write about these question, I will show you what is…
Now SQL Server 2017 RTM is available. 😀 The first step is to go to the Evaluation Center here After completing the registration with your contact information, you download the file “SQL Server 2017-SSEI-Eval.exe” Run SQL Server 2017-SSEI-Eval.exe and now it begins! A first screen gives me 3 choices to install SQL Server Basic: easy and fast to download and…
Beginning of last week Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL Server 2017 for today, the second of October. In the same time, but in a more marketing side, Microsoft announced a SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux offer, more information here. It looked for me like the good time to do my first installation of SQL Server 2017…
#SQLSatToulouse was definitely a great event. Firstly, a big thanks to the organization team (@Guss and @Fredg_31) as well as all the sponsors and attendees (without whom this kind of event would not be possible). As promised, here the slide deck of my session “Introduction to SQL Server on Linux for DBAs“. It was for me a great moment of sharing.…
A couple of months ago, Microsoft announced two additional command line tools for SQL Server that are mssql-scripter and DBFS. The latter has drawn my attention because it exposes live data from SQL Server DMVs as virtual files in a virtual directory on Linux operating system. Microsoft has probably taken another positive step in the SQL Server’s adoption on Linux.…
The 2nd edition of 24HOP French Edition 2017 is over and we had great sessions about SQL Server and various topics ( SQL Server 2017 new features, Azure, PowerBI, High Availability , Linux, Hyper-convergence , Modeling …) If you did not attend to this event, you now have the opportunity to watch the videos of the different sessions. From my side,…
