SQL Server

SQL Server tips: Executing a query with the EXECUTE command

This short SQL Server blog post is meant to help people who have experienced the error messages 2812 and 203 with the EXECUTE command. The goal is to execute a simple query from a variable in a string(…)

Journées SQL Server 2014: il n’est pas trop tard pour vous inscrire

Le plus grand événement français va bientôt avoir lieu (1 et 2 décembre) à Paris et il vous reste  encore une semaine pour vous y inscrire! Pensez également à commander votre lunch(…)

SQL Server & memory leak: Are you sure?

I have recently come across an issue with one of my customer that told me that their SQL Server 2008 R2 instance had a memory leak. These are strong words! The server has 64 GB of RAM and the(…)

SQL Server failover cluster, VSphere, & SCSI-3 reservation nightmares

When I have to install a virtualized SQL Server FCI at a customer place as an SQL Server consultant, the virtualized environment usally is ready. I guess this is the same for most part of the database consulting people.

SQL Server: Forced failover with AlwaysOn & Availability Groups

During a workshop at one of my customer about the implementation of SQL Server AlwaysOn and availability groups, I had an interesting discussion. It was about asynchronous replication between 2 replicas and the effect of the forced failover operation(…)

SQL Server 2014 Tips: Create indexes directly via CREATE TABLE

This week, I discovered a new enhancement which is not hidden but not really visible in SQL Server 2014. Among Hekaton and other new features in SQL Server 2014, a little option appears in table creation.8-O On the(…)

SQL Server 2014: classic commit vs commit with delayed durability & I/Os

When you learn about SQL Server, you will often hear that a commit transaction is a synchronous operation and that you can trust it. In this blog post, I will provide some details about what we mean by synchronous(…)

How to find the SQL Server Management Pack in the SCOM database

While working on a customer project, I needed to retrieve the SQL Server SCOM Management Pack version. Unfortunately, the SCOM team took a while to answer and as I am the DBA, I have access to the SCOM databases.

Deploying a SQL Server database to Azure

Deploying an SQL Server database to a Windows Azure virtual machine is a feature introduced with SQL Server 2014. It can be useful for an organization  that wants to reduce its infrastucture management, simplify the deployment, or have a(…)

SQL Server 2014: DBCC CHECKDB and ReFS support

Have you noticed an interesting behavior with SQL Server 2014 when you are running a dbcc checkdb command? If not, you should have a look at this blog post. I discovered it completely by accident during some tests. If(…)