Born SQL with Randolph West

Better SQL Server memory defaults in 2019

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

In 2016 I created the Max Server Memory Matrix as a guide for configuring the maximum amount of memory that should be assigned to SQL Server, using an algorithm developed...

2019-07-10

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Better SQL Server CPU defaults in 2019

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

SQL Server 2019 is still in preview as I write this, but I wanted to point out a new feature that Microsoft has added to SQL Server Setup, on...

2019-07-03

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SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is end of life on 9 July 2019

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

Next month, Microsoft is ending five years of extended support on SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2. This follows five years of mainstream support before that. You...

2019-06-26

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What is a container anyway?

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

Recently there was a thread on Twitter which established that a lot of IT people didn’t know the difference between virtual machines and containers. |???????|| CONTAINERS || ARE NOT...

2019-06-19

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Speaking at PASS Summit 2019

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

I am delighted to announce that I have been selected to speak at the largest Microsoft Data Platform conference in the world, PASS Summit 2019, in Seattle WA, USA....

2019-05-22

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Proposed SQL Server defaults: max server memory

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

A few months ago I suggested that the following settings should be the default for most SQL Server instances: Set cost threshold for parallelism to 50 Disable lightweight pooling...

2019-05-15

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The easy way to handle UTF-8 in a .NET application when dealing with SQL Server 2019

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

A short post this week. On a mailing list recently, someone noticed that a .NET application writing to SQL Server did not have the expected behaviour with UTF-8 collation...

2019-05-08

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A short Azure SQL Database Edge explainer

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

On Thursday 2 May 2019, Microsoft announced a new edition of SQL Server, targeting Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices. That means SQL Server can now run almost anywhere....

2019-05-03

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The case of scalar UDF inlining, where context is everything

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

I have a shorter post this week, but I reckon it’s an interesting story. As part of the new Intelligent Query Processing improvements introduced in the upcoming SQL Server...

2019-05-01

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Using a home-grown Azure Blob Storage solution for SQL Server backups

• by Randolph West

• Born SQL with Randolph West

I’m here for the small organizations, the shops that can’t afford expensive solutions to maintain their environments. I’m here for them because that’s me: the one-person consultancy. I’ve built...

2019-04-10

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