Infrastructure at your Service
Few weeks ago, David Barbarin and I went to the Tugar IT in Lisbon to follow the workshop from Slava Oks: Bringing SQL Server to Linux: Experience It was a deep dive into the code of SQL Server and Slava shows us how they achieve a universal platform regardless the operating system. On my mind, the challenge was how to deal with the Windows operating system dependencies that include all Win32/ NT Kernel calls and…
La prochaine édition du 24 Hours of PASS 2017 edition francophone se déroulera les 29-30 juin prochain. Pour rappel le format est simple: 24 webinars gratuits répartis sur 2 jours de 07:00 à 18h00 GMT et en Français. La seule obligation: s’inscrire aux sessions auxquelles vous assisterez. Cela vous permettra également de récupérer l’enregistrement vidéo si vous voulez la visionner à nouveau par la suite. Cette année il y en aura encore pour tous les goûts. Du…
After my article SQL Server 2017: first steps with Python Service, I write this article about my first test with the Python Server feature in SQL Server 2017. The installation is very simple, in the features Selection window, you have in the Shared Features, you have a Machine Learning Server (Standalone) with R and Python. I check Python to install the Python Server and here we go. Like for the Python services, you need to…
Last year, I written blogs about SQL Server 2016 and his integration from the R language. Just for information, you can find these blogs about SQL Server 2016 R Services here: SQL Server 2016: R Services SQL Server 2016 – R Services Tips: How to find installed packages using T-SQL? Now, the next version of SQL Server, named officially SQL Server 2017 integrate also the language Python. The first step is to install the Python…
I wrote some months ago several blog posts about the new Container feature of Windows Server 2016. Here is the list: Windows Server 2016: Containers Windows Containers: Migration Windows Container: installation and utilization Today, I will install the Container feature, install Docker and deploy a container. First of all, I need to enable the Container and the Hyper-V feature, take care if you use VirtualBox because after having enable Hyper-V this won’t work anymore. Windows…
Today, to finish the year, I post a brief personal impression of the IT-Tage 2016 in Frankfurt at the Hotel Maritim, where I was also be a speaker. I presented 2 sessions on SQL Server: “SQL Server Errorlog Entmystifizierung” & “SQL Server 2016: Neue Sicherheitsfunktionen”. I wasn’t the only one from dbi services who spoke at that conference: David Barbarin with also 2 sessions: “SQL Server – Locks, latches and spinlocks” & “SQL Server 2016…
After a little trip, just 1-hour flying from Zürich to Ljubljana yesterday, the SQL Saturday Slovenia 2016 begins this morning at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science of the University of Ljubljana… I needed to wake up very fast because my session was the first of the day at 9:00 AM. I also very happy to meet and to share my expertise with Slovenian and other SQL Server experts. My session was about the…
I’m pleased to announce that Microsoft gives now the opportunity to choose Linux as a new operating system for SQL Server. To try this new version, you can find in the Cloud Azure a new template in the marketplace. In the search bar, tape “SQL Server vnext” and you’ll find the “SQL Server vNext on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2”. Follow all “classic” steps to create your new VM SQL Server on Linux: First step,…
Starting with the release of SQL Server 2016 SP1, you will probably notice that the standard edition will benefit from a lot of features previously available only on Enterprise edition. Such features concern different areas as performance, Data Warehousing and Security features. Yes Sir, this is not a joke and definitly a good reason for customers who want to move on SQL Server 2016! Of course we may expect some limitations in terms of scalability…
Running SQL Server everywhere is not a dream anymore! Microsoft has just announced the first release of SQL Server CTP1 on Linux today! But that’s not all! SQL Server Vnext is also available on Windows, Mac (via Docker), on a physical machine, virtual machine and on a docker container as well … So everywhere you want! Enjoy!
