Infrastructure at your Service
By Franck Pachot . In the previous blog post I’ve installed SQL Server on the Oracle Cloud. My goal was actually to have a look at Redgate SQL Clone, a product that automates thin cloning. The SQL Server from the Oracle marketplace is ok for SQL Clone prerequisites. There’s a little difference in .NET Framework version (I have 4.6 where 4.7.2 or later is required but that’s fine – if it was not an update…
By Franck Pachot . You can create a VM with SQL Server running in the Oracle Cloud. This is easy with a few clicks on the marketplace: Here are the steps I did above: Oracle Cloud -> Marketplace -> Application -> Category -> Database management You have multiple flavors. I’ve chosen the lastest cheaper “Microsoft SQL 2016 Standard with Windows Server 2016 Standard” Select the compartment and “Launch Instance” Choose a name, and the network…
In this blog post, I will show you what I did to troubleshoot an interesting problem with Memory on SQL Server. It all started with a job performing DBCC CHECKDB on all databases taking hours to complete instead of 10 minutes. So the Job ran outside of its maintenance window, still running in the morning when users come back to the office. They immediately complained about poor application performance. While running the CHECKDB we could…
Today I faced a strange issue when I tried to install a new SQL Server instance : Failed to retrieve data for this request This error occurred just after clicking on “New SQL Server stand-alone installation…” The error message is not helpful at all. So, the first step to troubleshoot an issue is to look at the error logs. The location by default is : C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Setup Bootstrap\Log There is a summary.txt file…
What is Linked server ? Now a days in each company we have different applications and each one of them have different needs in term of databases support. When data exists on multiple databases the management become a little bit hard. For exemple moving some data from an Oracle database to a SQL Server database is not easy. A linked servers is configured to enable the Database Engine to execute a Transact-SQL statement that includes…
By Franck Pachot . J’essaie quelque chose de nouveau. Je publie beaucoup en anglais (blog, articles, prĂ©sentations) mais cette fois quelque chose de 100% francophone. En sortant du confinement, on reprend les transports (train, voiture,…) et c’est l’occasion de se dĂ©tendre en musique mais aussi de s’informer avec des podcasts. J’ai l’impression que c’est un format qui a de l’avenir: moins contraignant que regarder une video ou ou lire un article ou une newsletter. Alors…
By Franck Pachot . I’ll reference Alex DeBrie article “SQL, NoSQL, and Scale: How DynamoDB scales where relational databases don’t“, especially the paragraph about “Why relational databases don’t scale”. But I want to make clear that my post here is not against this article, but against a very common myth that even precedes NoSQL databases. Actually, I’m taking this article as reference because the author, in his website and book, has really good points about…
Introduction RDS provide automatic backup feature. This feature will backup the entire RDS instance. As a DBA sometimes you need to backup individual database, they are many reason for that (legal, migration, replication,…). Unfortunately individual database backups are not available within the RDS instance. This post explains how you can enable the native database backup on RDS , as you are used to with an on-premises SQL Server instance. To summarize we will create a…
SQL Azure Database by default offers a 99.99% availability SLA across all its service tiers. This means that for any database, the downtime should not exceed 52 minutes per year. Using Zone redundancy increases availability to 99.995% which is about 26 minutes per year. These impressive numbers can be achieved through in-region redundancy of the compute and storage resources and automatic failover within the region. Some disruptive events may impact the region’s availability like Datacenter…
In this blog post, I’ll go through the steps to create an Azure SQL Database using Azure PowerShell. Introduction to Azure SQL Database The SQL database services provided by Microsoft on the cloud are now grouped under the name of Azure SQL. The Azure SQL family contains services that I will briefly summarize; Azure SQL Database – DBaaS (Database-as-a-Service) Azure SQL Managed Instance – PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) SQL Server on Azure VMs – IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) In…
