Infrastructure at your Service
Before SQL Server 2016, you had the possibility to check the case “Send Windows and SQL Server Error Reports….” during the installation if you want to be a part of the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP). In SQL Server 2016, after the installation, all of the CEIP are automatically turned on. Why? SQL Server and SQL Azure share the same code now. On Azure, this service existed since a long time. It collects a large…
Today starts the Pass Summit 2017 taking place in Seattle. After a small fly over the Ocean, more than 10 hours… yesterday, and a nice jet lag which avoid me to sleep later than 4AM this morning, I arrived to the Convention Center in Seattle where the Pass takes place. I start this first day by the session of Itzik Ben-Gan: T-SQL Tips and Tricks. As part of the session, Itzik spoke about batch processing…
Now SQL Server 2017 RTM is available. The first step is to go to the Evaluation Center here After completing the registration with your contact information, you download the file “SQL Server 2017-SSEI-Eval.exe” Run SQL Server 2017-SSEI-Eval.exe and now it begins! A first screen gives me 3 choices to install SQL Server Basic: easy and fast to download and install SQL Server 2017 Custom: Download the setup package and launch the SQL Installation Center Download…
In SQL Server 2016, you will discover a lot of new Dynamic Management Views(DMVs). In this article, I will just give you a little overview of these useful views for us as DBA. SQL Server 2012 has 145 DMVs and SQL Server 2014 has 166 DMVs. Now, SQL Server 2016 has 185 DMVs. How to see it? It is very easy to have a look using the sys.all_objects view: SELECT * FROM sys.all_objects WHERE TYPE=’V’…
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…
A few weeks ago, I prepared a migration from SQL Server 2008 to SQL server 2016, I came across a case with deprecated data types and a Full-Text activated on these columns. To simulate this scenario, I downloaded and installed the Data Migration Assistant(DMA). Make sure that the .Net Framework 4.5 is installed on your machine before starting the installation of the DMA. After the installation, you start the application which is very simple to…
As a good DBA, I begin to be up to date with all Cumulative Update (CU) by my customers. It is the first time that I run an update for SQL Server 2016 with the CU 3. I download the CU on Microsoft website and I begin my patching campaign on all SQL server 2016 instances. The first one is quick & successful. The second one, with R Services, is a little bit different. After,…
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 wonder how works Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) with these two commands INSERT INTO and SELECT INTO. First, I create a table and add some “sensitive data”: USE [DDM_TEST] GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Confidential]( [ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED, [Name] [nvarchar](70)NULL, [CreditCard] [nvarchar](16)NULL, [Salary] [int] NULL, [Email] [nvarchar](60)NULL) insert into [dbo].[Confidential]([Name],[CreditCard],[Salary],[Email]) values (N’Stephane’,N’3546748598467584′,113459,N’sts@dbi-services.com’) insert into [dbo].[Confidential]([Name],[CreditCard],[Salary],[Email]) values (N’David’,N’3546746598450989′,143576,’dab@dbi-services.com’) insert into [dbo].[Confidential]([Name],[CreditCard],[Salary],[Email]) values (N’Nathan’,N’3890098321457893′,118900,’nac@dbi-services.com’) insert into [dbo].[Confidential]([Name],[CreditCard],[Salary],[Email]) values (N’Olivier’,N’3564890234785612′,98000,’olt@dbi-services.com’) insert into [dbo].[Confidential]([Name],[CreditCard],[Salary],[Email]) values (N’Alain’,N’9897436900989342′,85900,’ala@dbi-services.com’)…
