SQL Server 2016 CTP 3 Setup – UI Improvements
There are some improvements in the setup UI for SQL Server 2016 CTP3, and its great to see Microsoft making...
2015-11-11
800 reads
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Azure Virtual Machine Blog Series – Changing the size of a VM
I’m starting a new blog series on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines, and my goal is to write blog posts exclusively on...
2015-09-30 (first published: 2015-09-24)
2,799 reads
SQL Server Data Tools is now a separate installer – Things to know!
Recently I had to develop some SSRS report, and my desktop machine had SQL Server 2014 installed on it. I...
2015-09-08
1,285 reads
Why I won’t be running SQL Server Standard Edition on Business Critical Servers!
I keep getting questions around what core features are missing in Standard Edition of SQL Server,and why there is a...
2015-07-09
1,145 reads
Full Domain Trust and Natively Compiled Stored Procedures – In Memory OLTP
Recently one of my developers brought this specific problem to my attention. He was trying to create a natively compiled stored...
2015-06-03 (first published: 2015-05-26)
1,351 reads
Installing SQL Server 2016 CTP2 – UI Changes
SQL Server 2016 CTP2 public build was released by Microsoft yesterday, and if you haven’t downloaded it yet, then drop everything(No,...
2015-05-29
3,241 reads
SQL Server 2016 Announced, and it stretches to the Cloud!
Last week during Ignite, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the next version(Till then it was called as SQL vNext) of...
2015-05-10
1,010 reads
Exploring AlwaysOn Availability Group Template in Azure
This is one of those posts which is due for a long time. I was really excited when Microsoft announced...
2015-04-08 (first published: 2015-04-01)
6,490 reads
This one enhancement makes AlwaysOn Availability Group better in SQL Server 2014 !
I keep getting questions on what is improved other than the increased number of secondaries(8 now) with AlwaysOn Availability Group(AG) in...
2015-03-02 (first published: 2015-02-19)
7,975 reads
SELECT INTO Improvements in SQL Server 2014 !
SQL Server 2014 is a great release with high performance features like In Memory OLTP, Updatable Column Store Indexes etc.
These features still...
2015-01-15 (first published: 2015-01-13)
10,085 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a...
Come See Me at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Brian Kelley
I'm speaking on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community Summit. It's scheduled for...
SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups
By Steve Jones
I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Managing unused indexes
While doing some housekeeping activity on several old but large production databases, I come...
Cloud Performance Considerations
How important to SQL Server is the speed of the SSD and network latency?...
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Striped Backup File Limits
In SQL Server 2022, how many backup files can I have in a striped backup?
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