By SQLRx Admin | Lunch And Learn , SQL 2017 , SQL Server
Come see Bob Ward from Microsoft speak about “Fast and Furious: SQL 2017” at the DFW BI & Analytics Community Meeting on 12/6, 11:30-1:00 at Noah’s in Irving. You can register on the “Event” section of the ISI website at www.isi85.com . The DFW Business Intelligence and Analytics Community welcomes Bob Ward of the Microsoft […]
Continue readingBy SQLRx Admin | Helpful Scripts , Miscellaneous , SQL Server , Tip of the Month
Find out if any of tables in your database have special features enabled using the queries below. These features need to be understood and carefully managed. — CDC Enabled Tables select distinct t.name AS CDCTables from sys.tables t where t.is_tracked_by_cdc = 1 — File Tables — SQL 2012 + select distinct t.name AS FileTables from […]
Continue readingBy SQLRx Admin | Miscellaneous , SQL 2017 , SQL Server
Since we at SQLRX have been super busy this week and still need to do something for a blog post, I thought that doing a link round up of new dynamic management views that are going to be available in SQL 2017 would be a quick and good idea. I am really interested in sys.dm_db_log_info […]
Continue readingBy SQLRx Admin | ColumnStore , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Tip of the Month
Find out if any of your tables contain special columnstore or spatial indexes. Columnstore indexes organizes the data in columns instead of rows like traditional indexes and can increase performance on large data sets as found in data warehouses. Spatial indexes are a special type of index on a spatial column such as geometry or […]
Continue readingBy SQLRx Admin | Database Mail , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Tip of the Month
If you are planning on installing SQL Server 2016, take note that you need SP1 or .NET 3.5 for Database Mail. Database Mail is a very important and widely used part of SQL that allows us to send e-mail. I found this when mail could not be sent and the Database Mail log was empty […]
Continue readingBy SQLRx Admin | Beginner , Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Tip of the Month
Find out if any of your tables are compressed in your database using the query below. Compressed tables can save space and make queries run faster. — Compressed Tables select distinct t.name AS CompressedTables from sys.partitions p inner join sys.tables t on p.object_id = t.object_id where p.data_compression > 0 If you don’t have any tables […]
Continue readingBy SQLRx Admin | Beginner , Installation , SQL Administration , SQL Server
I opened my local SSMS today and found my first notification of an update to SQL 2016 Management Studio today. Here is what it looks like: When you click on update it takes you to MSDN to download the update. Apparently this one is a hotfix. Note that you do not have to download the […]
Continue readingBy SQLRx Admin | Installation , SQL Administration , SQL Server
Now that SQL Server 2016 has been released (https://blog.sqlrx.com/2016/06/01/sql-server-2016-rtm-available/ ), DBA’s are going to notice that the Management Studio tools are not in the list of options to install. Starting in SQL 2016, SSMS is a separate download and install. You can find the download at: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/mt238290.aspx The install notes say that it can be […]
Continue readingBy SQLRx Admin | Advice , Installation , Miscellaneous , SQL Server , Upgrade
In case you live under a rock or were at the dentist, Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2016 has been made generally available today June 1, 2016. See: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2016/06/01/sql-server-2016-is-generally-available-today/ Pricing is as follows: A handy feature comparison of previous versions of SQL can be located here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/sql-server/comparison.aspx SQL 2016 feature comparison between editions can be […]
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