SQL Server

Pass summit – day 4

Optimizing Multi-Billion Row Tables in Tabular in 2018   I wanted to attend the session moderated by Marco Russo to see his approach of optimizing performance in Tabular model The first thing to understand is how the data is(…)

Pass summit – dbi visit day 3

The Microsoft data platform is evolving The third day began with the Keynote help by Rohan Kumar the Corporate Vice President of Azure Data by Microsoft The main message was “Hybrid data platform is the way for the(…)

SQL server security pre-conference @SQL Pass Summit 2018 in Seattle

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(…)

First steps into SQL Server 2019 availability groups on K8s

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced the first public CTP version of next SQL Server version (CTP2). It is not a surprise, the SQL Server vNext becomes SQL Server 2019 and there are a plenty of(…)

SQL Server Tips: How many different datetime are in my column and what the delta?

Few months ago, a customer asks me for finding in a column, how many rows exist with the same date & time and the delta between them. The column default value  is based on the function(…)

SQL Server Tips: Drop a database-user attached to a service…

Few weeks ago, I have a little issue when I try to drop a database-user without login Unfortunately, I do a little mistake at the beginning… I receive like every morning a report if all AD logins (computers, groups,(…)

Deploying SQL Server on MiniShift / RedHat OpenShift

Currently we begin to see customer adopting containerization for SQL Server databases (mainly driven by CI/CD and DevOps trends). A lot of them are using RedHat OpenShift as container management platform. From my side, I didn’t(…)

The size of Oracle Home: from 9GB to 600MB – What about SQL Server?

Holidays is over and let’s start working with a funny write-up. I was reading interesting stuff done by my colleagues Franck Pachot and Daniel Westermann about reducing the size of Oracle / PostgreSQL binaries(…)

Running SQL Server containers on K8s Docker for Windows CE stable channel

The release of Docker for Windows Stable version 18.06..0-ce-win70 comes with some great new features I looked for a while including the K8s support! That’s a pretty good news because this support has existed on Edge channel since(…)

Introducing SQL Server on Kubernetes

After spending some times with Docker Swarm let’s introduce SQL Server on Kubernetes (aka K8s). Why another container orchestrator? Well, because Microsoft gives a strong focus on Kubernetes in their documentation and their events and because K8s is probably one(…)