Denali – Day 31: Discontinue and Breaking/Behavior change features Discontinue Features: As discussed about Deprecated will going to discontinue with that in Denali there are some features which has already discontinued. Means if you try to use those features they … Continue reading →

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Denali – Day 30: Deprecated Features Deprecated feature means these features are available in the current version of Sql server but it’s highly possible that would not be available in future version of sql server, so you should plan your … Continue reading →

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Denali – Day 29: Resource Governor Enhancements (Database Engine) Introduction to Resource Governor: Resource Governor is a feature introduced in sql server 2008. It requires Enterprise and developer edition.   As name implies It controls the resources allocation for users, … Continue reading →

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Denali – Day 28: CDC for ORACLE Sql server has provided a great features for changes monitoring as Change data Capture Change Tracking http://www.mssqltips.com/tipprint.asp?tip=1819 Change data capture is introduced in 2008 now on Denali it supports for ORACLE database as … Continue reading →

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Denali – Day 27: System Center Advisor (aka ‘Atlanta’) As Microsoft is working more on Cloud base system, on that basis Microsoft has introduced a Tool for sql server called “System Center Advisor – SCA – aka Atlanta. Its internet … Continue reading →

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Denali – Day 26: Tool: Power View -Reporting Power View (Aka Crescent)   If you are good with: Xls Pivot table Power point   And you are on administration position to get reports and want to get stats. Power View … Continue reading →

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Denali – Day 25: Tools: Add-on to Sql server 2008 (R2)

 

MDS and Best Practice Analyzer new features were introduced in sql server 2008 R2,

System Health Session – Introduced in Sql server 2008

in Denali Microsoft tried to make it improved and stable.

• MDS (Master Data Services) – Introduced…

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Denali – Day 24: True Black Box Recorder – sp_server_diagnostics

 

Earlier sql server was having diagnoses tool.

Default trace.

SQLDiag

And other tools but could not got the one which we can all it as True Black Box Recorder
by “Bob Dorr – Principal SQL Server Escalation Engineer“”… Read more

Denali – Day 23: Data Quality Services(DQS)

Data intelligence vs. human intelligence: Sql server RDBMS is a database system which has data in it, most of the time, we enter the data but as a user they enter the data assuming things are good, like “USA, US or America are… Read more

Denali – Day 22: SQL Server Developer Tools SSDT (Aka “Juneau”)

 

As stated earlier on blog on “LocalDB” discussion, developers are involved in development and has to interact with database, in this case Denali has introduced another tool called “SSDT” a visual studio shell tool for developers… Read more

Denali – Day 21: Security

 

Security wise Microsoft sql server is going great and on compare with other RDBMS in the market it has very little flows with regards to Security. It’s a one of the great achievement by sql server.

Contained databases-

As blogged about contained database,… Read more

Denali – Day 20: More Programmability Feature

• Native XML Web Services (SOAP/HTTP endpoints) is Removed:
  

 

Earlier version of sql server support Web services of End points to connect to sql server, could be due to security reason (my opinion) this has been removed, now you could not able to create… Read more

Denali – Day 19: Programmability Feature -T-Sql

ORDER BY .. OFFSET and FETCH :mysql LIMIT (srno ):

OFFSET is a location of the rows to be fetched and FETCH is how many number of rows to be fetched. This options should be specified with ORDER BY clause

By default

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Denali – Day 18: Engine: Express LocalDB–Command line

Express LocalDB is an express edition with minimum files required to start sql server for developers to work. This is only for developers assuming they donot have much knowledge of DBA and do not want to know much, they are more focus… Read more

Denali – Day 17: Distributed Replay

Distribution replay a new command prompt utility provided by Denali, this works same as Profiler Reply but has additional features over it.

• Unlike profiler reply distributed replay also reply the trace but it can be on multiple servers.
  
• For reply on profile it takes…

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Denali – Day 16: Tool: Database Recovery Advisor –SSMS tool

As blogged on “Denali – Day 11: SSMS enhancement” about Features added on SSMS, now you can restore a page using SSMS, to add to it SSMS has another tool called “Recovery Adviser” where you could restore database… Read more

Denali – Day 15: Support for Windows Server Core

 

Windows Server Core: Microsoft Server has so many features which is not required on the server and would never been used, but it exists and sometime cause issue. For this reason Microsoft has introduced an operating system called “CORE” from “windows… Read more

Denali – Day 14: New DMV & DMF

 

As there has been so many DMV/DMF already introduced in earlier version of Sql server, Denali does not have much on this part, but 5 new dmv/dmf and 1 modified here most of the stuff is related to OS, below are the… Read more

Denali – Day 12: FileTable

 

“FileStream” is introduced in sql server 2008, for storing BLOB data like varbinary(max), it is integrated with NTFS file system by creating a separate FileGroup to stored BLOB data, and make it more efficient and stable in sql server”

 

FileTable is a new feature to… Read more

Denali – Day 12: – More Manageability Features:

1. -K switch
   

   With new feature added in an engine to use that feature with different way you may have to add options to use it, as HADRon – AlwaysON feature where secondary server is read-only and active, there is an option -K…

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