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SQL SERVER Back to Basics What is Azure?
Recently I was at a community session talking to a bunch of computer science students about databases and the type of work I have been doing lately in consulting. I wanted to talk about Performance...
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Initial impressions of SQL Server v.Next Public Preview
Microsoft announced its SQL Server on linux public preview yesterday . I’m really excited to check it out. Here are some interesting things I found during my testing. I’ll write more as I play with it...
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厉害了！微软 SQL Server 2016 SP1 发布
随着云优先（cloud first）的策略，SQL产品团队已经观察到 SQL Server 2016 比先前任何版本拥有更大的成功和采用度。现在，SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (SP1) 发布了，官方正在进行关键改进，以便为跨 SQL Server 版本的开发人员和组织提供一致的可编程性体验。 此外，SQL Server 2016 SP1 还引入了曾在 SQL...
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Wait on the Database Engine Recovery Handle Failed SQL Server Installation Error
By:Manvendra Singh || Related Tips:More > Install and Uninstall Problem Last week I was installing a SQL Server 2014 standalone instance. I took care of all the prerequisites and then started...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 SP1 Standard Edition Enhancements
I seldom get excited about service packs but the changes released with SQL Server 2016 SP1 are the most significant I’ve seen in a SQL Server service pack in 20+ years. Microsoft announced this week...
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Tracking The Progress Of A Database Backup Or Restore In SQL Server
Tracking the progress of a database backup or restore can typically be performed, to some degree, within the GUI of SQL Management Studio by the user who is actually performing the backup/restore....
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New home for SQL Server Citation
Change is inevitable, it's natural. I would like to quote few lines from Shrimad Bhagavad Gita says Change is the law of the the universe. In my opinion, change will bring good to your life, always....
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SQL SERVER 2016 DBCC Command Enhancement with MAXDOP
When you want to be successful, you need to run alone and fast. But if you want to run longer, you want to run together. I have personally seen multiple instances where this statement holds true to...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 SP1: Breakthrough Changes
A few days ago, Microsoft released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for SQL Server 2016 . This release however, is not at all similar to older releases of SQL Server service packs, in a very pleasant manner. In...
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How to Find Longest Running Query With Execution Plan Interview Question of t...
Question:How to find the longest running query in SQL Server with Execution Plan? Answer:This is a very popular question I see in SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers. SQL Server stores all the...
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Columnstore Indexes part 90 (“In-Memory Columnstore Improvements in Service ...
Continuation from the previous 89 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/ . This blog post is focusing on a very important improvement to the limitation of the...
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Columnstore Indexes part 91 (“SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition Limitations” ...
Continuation from the previous 90 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/ . Given the improvements and the availability of the of the programability surface for...
View Article不计前嫌，握手言和：Microsoft宣布新版SQL Server将同时支持Windows与Linux两大平台
今年三月份，微软首次 宣布 自旗舰产品SQL Server将支持linux平台，给世界带来了一个巨大的惊喜。到目前为止，只有被邀请才能预览。但是微软11月17日在纽约举办的Connect开发者大会上宣布，想尝试的用户现在可以试用其内测预览版了。此内测预览版是第一个可同时用于windows和Linux的版本。 由于新版SQL...
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SQL SERVER Best Practices About SQL Server Service Account and Password Manag...
One of my clients posted a question to me about management of SQL Server service account. Since it was a nice learning for me, I am sharing my discussion via this blog post. Let us seethe Best...
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Access MySQL data from SQL Server via a Linked Server
By:Douglas Correa || Related Tips:More >Linked Servers Problem There are often times when you need to access data from mysql from within SQL Server. You could export and import the data, but...
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The Right Infrastructure Under a Virtualized Microsoft SQL Server Application...
Doing research before you implement is great, but in the end it comes down to the final decisions you make. With many organizations already exceeding 75% server virtualization (source: Gartner), and...
View ArticleInitial Thoughts on 2016 SP1
A really odd choice I’ve talked a bit about my annoyance with hardware limits for Standard Editionhere andhere. If you’re a bunch of SQL-savvy developers who understand the Enterprise Edition features...
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Associative Analytics: Two sample T Test
In the previous post we looked at a one way T-Test. A one way T Test helped us determine if a selected sample was indeed truly representative of the larger population. A Two way T Test goes a step...
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SQL Server 如何通过SQL语句定位SSRS中的具体报表
在一些IT技术人员的推广、简单培训后，公司很多部门都有一些非IT技术人员参与开发各自需求的Reporting Service报表。原因很简单，罗列出来的原因大概有这样一些： IT部门的考量： 1：IT部门这边工作量很大，跟进各个项目都力不从心。不想腾出精力和时间来解决各个部门层出不穷的报表需求。...
View ArticleHyper-V Lab for SQL Server
Whether you are playing with features or learning them in a server operating system, orSQL Server, you need to first have somewhere to run it all. All of us would love to have a server rack in our...
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