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Running SQL Server 2019 CTP in a Docker container
If you’ve been anywhere near social media this week you may have seen that Microsoft has announced SQL Server 2019 . I love it when a new version of SQL is released. There’s always a whole new bunch...
View ArticleSQL Server v.Next is Coming in 2019
Yesterday the 2018 Ignite conference kicked off with a number of announcements from Microsoft. You can re-watch some talks and the keynote, catching up on windows , CosmosDB, and more. The big...
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Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters
Yesterday at the Microsoft Ignite conference, we announced that SQL Server 2019 is now in preview and that SQL Server 2019 will include Apache Spark and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for...
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SentryOne Cloud Sync 18.4 Enhances Web-Based Access to SQL Server Monitoring...
CHARLOTTE, NC Sept. 25, 2018 SentryOne announced the release of SentryOne Cloud Sync v18.4 (formerly SentryOne Cloud), which adds significant functionality and user experience enhancements to the...
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Microsoft SQL Server 2019 gets a Spark
Spark is everywhere, let’s celebrate! Yesterday, during Ignite 2019, Microsoft announced that they will integrate Apache Spark more tightly with SQL Server 2019. If you missed previous announcements...
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Microsoft SQL Server 2019 : Data Platform in a Box
I’m writing this blog post the day after Microsoft has unveiled SQL Server 2019 at their flagship Ignite 2018 conference. Officially named SQL Server 2019, it comes hot off the heels of the SQL 2017...
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Insert missing SQL Server IDENTITY column values using SET IDENTITY_INSERT...
By: Ben Richardson || Related Tips:More >Identities Problem While designing a SQL Server database, the primary key column is often set to auto-increment. To do this, the IDENTITY constraint is set...
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A quick look at SQL Server Logs
Logs are always important for anyone who works with any application. SQL Server has its own Logs that can be accessed to get the required information. Often, people call it as SQL Server Error logs....
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Reducing operating costs by upgrading SQL Server 2008 workloads using DataON...
What are your options when the end of support for SQL Server 2008 R2 occurs in July 2019, and moving to the cloud is not an immediate option? In a joint benchmarking project between DataON , Western...
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Running Microsoft SQL Server on Red Hat OpenShift
In this blog post, we’ll set up Microsoft SQL Server on Red Hat OpenShift . We’ll use SQL Server to store data for a simpleASP.NET Core application running in a container deployed on OpenShift that...
View ArticlePFS corruption after upgrading from SQL Server 2014
I’m seeing reports from a few people of DBCC CHECKDB reporting PFS corruption after an upgrade from SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2016 or later. The symptoms are that you run DBCC CHECKDB after the...
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Cycle SQL Server Error Logs
I saw this again recently and see it too often in environments so wanted to take a second to remind everyone to cycle their error logs on a regular basis. SQL Server keeps error logs and when you...
View ArticleSQL Server Maximum Line Size
Azure SQL Server maximum pool size was reached error We have azure sql server, while connecting more than 40 concurrent users we getting below error. Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior...
View ArticleSDU Tools: Convert a hexadecimal character string to an integer in T-SQL
I mentioned in a previous post about how I sometimes need to work with binary strings in SQL Server using T-SQL. The literal values are hexadecimal strings. T-SQL doesn't have a simple function to just...
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Polybase Expansion, Big Clusters Are Key Features in the New SQL Server 2019
Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference kicked off this week, and, in what some saw as a surprise, Microsoft announced the next version of its flagship database platform--to be branded asSQL Server 2019....
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No More Mysterious Truncation
No More Mysterious Truncation Steve Jones - SSC Editor Posted on 26 September 2018 Comments If you read the Microsoft White Paper on SQL Server 2019 , there’s a gem buried on page 17. It mentions a...
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SQL Server 2019: Celebrating 25 years of SQL Server Database Engine and the...
This post is authored by Amit Banerjee, Principal PM Manager, SQL Server and Bob Ward,Principal Architect, Microsoft SQL Server Data Services. SQL Server has provided enterprises the capability to...
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Best Hidden Feature in SQL Server 2019
Best Hidden Feature in SQL Server 2019 jsterrett Posted on 26 September 2018 Comments With Microsoft’s Ignite conference this week a lot of new features are being advertised all over the internet. Most...
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Columnstore Indexes part 125 (“Estimate Columnstore Compression as a System ...
Continuation from the previous 124 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/ . It is quite emblematic that this blog post is following the number 124 in the series...
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Get SQL Server Row Count and Space Used with the sp_rows
Problem One task we often have with SQL Server is determining how many rows are in a table and how much space a table is using. We can do this using sp_spaceused, but this is a little bit cumbersome to...
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