U-SQL Defined

Azure Data Lake Analytics (ADLA) is a distributed analytics service built on Apache YARN that allows developers to be productive immediately...

vNext has AG

Now vNext SQL Server on Linux supports Availability Group HA/DR functionality supported.   https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2017/02/17/sql-server-on-linux-mission-critical-hadr-with-always-on-availability-groups/    

SQL Agent on vNext – Linux

SQL Server is running on Linux now with SQLPAL- SQL Platform Abstraction Layer(SQLPAL) -it will work as a virtual Windows server on...

Updated SQL Server on VMware Best Practices Guide

I am proud to announce that we contributed to the latest revision of the Microsoft SQL Server on VMware best practices...

Illustration of an example availability monitoring service Using PowerShell and SQL

This article discusses a simple solution of how to monitor SQL service availability across multiple servers and reporting. To build...

TempDB Database On a Local Disk for an FCI

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TempDB Database On a Local Disk for an FCI

This article will be helpful in configuring TempDB on a local Disk instead of shared storage in SQL Server 2012/2014....

TempDB Database On a Local Disk for an FCI

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TempDB Database On a Local Disk for an FCI

This article will be helpful in configuring TempDB on a local...

An Introduction to Conatiners and Docker: Switch to Windows Containers

This is Chris Gibson's second post. This post follows on from his first post called: An Introduction to Containers and...

Having OCD in Azure…

Everyone gives OCD a hard time. When in fact it is something to embrace.
I am of course talking about Operational...

Building SQL Server Projects with GitLab Runners

This is the eighth part in the series: SQL Server and Continuous Integration. This post describes the set-up required for GitLab runners to...