SQL Server 2019 Preview
Earlier this week, we announced SQL Server 2019 Public Preview at Microsoft Ignite. All the features that you see in the “What’s New” page are new capabilities that shipped with the CTP 2.0 release....
View ArticleSQL Server 2019 CTP 2.0 New Features – Introducing the Page Cracker (AKA...
Microsoft Ignite 2018 is fading away in the rearview mirror, but the excitement over all the new features and the vision shared there is just beginning. You're probably seeing lots of buzz around the...
View ArticleSQL Server 2019 CTP 2.0 New Features – Columnstore support for...
Next up for new Storage Engine area features in SQL Server 2019 is an update to the sp_estimate_data_compression_savings stored procedure to add support for both columnstore and columnstore archive...
View ArticleString or Binary data would be truncated: replacing the infamous error 8152
In the recent announcement at Ignite 2018 on the release of SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.0, the new Big Data Clusters, data virtualization, support for UTF-8, and Intelligent Query Processing were highlights....
View ArticleFailover Detection Utility – Availability Group Failover Analysis Made Easy
To analyze the root cause for the failover of an Availability group, users are required to perform coordinated analysis of various logs including the Cluster Logs, SQL Error Logs, and the Availability...
View ArticleSQL Server 2017 on Linux: Support for third-party AD providers
In the past, SQL Server on Linux has required SSSD to be configured for AD Authentication to work. SSSD is a very powerful service which provides support AD authentication and integration. However,...
View ArticleReplica Failover within the Secondary Availability Group in a Distributed...
A distributed availability group (distributed AG) is a special type of availability group that spans two availability groups. This blog will clarify some issues regarding failover in a distributed AG,...
View ArticleLet’s talk about trace flags
One of the most confusing aspects of SQL Server configuration is often trace flags. There are lots of trace flags out there, and while many of them are documented, when to use them and when not to is...
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This blog is in the process of being migrated to one of the new consolidated SQL Server and Azure SQL Database blogs on the Microsoft TechCommunity website. Once the migration is complete, we will post...
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