SQL Server

Attunity Replicate: additional column on the target

In December 2015, my colleague Vincent did a test with additional column with Oracle GoldenGate 12.2. Hervé & Vincent asked me(…)

SQL Server 2005 decommissioning failed!

The support for SQL Server 2005 is no more available, so we are migrating all the latest databases running under SQL Server 2005 to SQL server 2012 or higher! Last(…)

SQL Server 2016: new tools management strategy

A lot of customer’s feedbacks are about difficulties to find easily SQL Server tools. Now, it is easier… 😉 A unified web page for SQL Server Tools The first good news is that Microsoft unified and gathered these tools(…)

Stored procedure execution may fail with nonclustered columnstore indexes

In this blog post, let’s talk about a weird situation where I faced a nonclustered columnstore issue with SQL Server 2012. Let’s say we are in the same context than this previous blog post here. So(…)

SQL Server 2016: Extended Events are more powerful as Trace Flag for Backups and Restores

Before SQL Server 2016, we use Trace Flag to display information about backup and restore operations like the 3004, 3014, 3213 or 3604. Here a link to the MSDN with a great(…)

SQL Server: Now Cumulative Updates (CU) need to be install!

 Since this year, Microsoft recommends to install Cumulative Updates (CU) like Service Packs (SP) In the past, Microsoft always recommended to apply the Service Packs and security fixes for SQL Server. Cumulative Updates were applied only if(…)

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 2016: Microsoft R Server

In my last article, I wrote about the R Services into SQL Server. Now, Microsoft provides an open source R platform to complete this new SQL Server integrated feature in 2016.

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(…)

The (almost) same sample schema for all major relational databases (4) – MSSQL

In previous posts, my colleague Daniel Westermann explained how to install the “Dell DVD Store Database Test Suite” into PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL. This time, this is my job to present you how to proceed(…)