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How bwin is using SQL Server 2016 In-Memory OLTP to achieve unprecedented...
Written by: Biljana Lazic (bwin – Senior DBA) and Rick Kutschera (bwin – Engineering Manager). Reviewed by: Mike Weiner (SQLCAT) bwin (part of GVC Holdings PLC) is one of Europe’s leading online...
View ArticleOops Recovery with Temporal Tables
Reviewed by: Kun Cheng, John Hoang, Sanjay Mishra, Borko Novakovic, Denzil Ribeiro, Murshed Zaman Have you ever got that sinking feeling after hitting the Execute button in SSMS, thinking “I should...
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Improve query performance on memory optimized tables with Temporal using new...
Reviewed by: Dimitri Furman,Sanjay Mishra, Mike Weiner With the introduction of the Temporal feature in SQL 2016 and Azure SQL Database, there is an ability to time travel through the state of data as...
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Azure SQL DW: Moving to a different region with restore from backup option
Reviewers: Dimitri Furman, John Hoang, Mike Weiner, Denzil Ribeiro, Joe Yong Background: Azure SQL Data Warehouse service (SQL DW) uses a snapshot backup to back up your data at a regular (8 hour)...
View ArticleHow to Check Database Availability from the Application Tier
Reviewed by: Mike Weiner, Murshed Zaman A fundamental part of ensuring application resiliency to failures is being able to tell if the application database(s) are available at any given point in time....
View ArticleMigration from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database Using Transactional Replication
Written by: Josh Gnanayutham, Program Manager, SQL Engineering Introduction As users are increasingly moving their data to the Azure cloud, migration from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database is a common...
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SQL Server Availability Groups in Azure VM setup with AAD Domain Services
Reviewed by: Steven Schneider, Sanjay Mishra, Mike Weiner, Kun Cheng, Dimitri Furman, Arvind Shyamsundar, Mahesh Unnikrishnan, Luis Carlos Vargas Herring Deploying SQL Server Availability Groups in...
View ArticleBacking up a VLDB to Azure Blob Storage
Reviewed by: Pat Schaefer, Rajesh Setlem, Xiaochen Wu, Murshed Zaman All SQL Server versions starting from SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU2 support Backup to URL, which allows storing SQL Server backups in...
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SQLSweet16!, Episode 10: “I can eat glass …”, but can I load it into a database?
Sanjay Mishra Reviewed By: Dimitri Furman, Murshed Zaman, Kun Cheng If you have tried to use BULK INSERT or bcp utilities to load UTF-8 data into a table in SQL Server 2014 or in an earlier release...
View ArticleBacking up a VLDB to Azure Blob Storage
Reviewed by: Pat Schaefer, Rajesh Setlem, Xiaochen Wu, Murshed Zaman All SQL Server versions starting from SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU2 support Backup to URL, which allows storing SQL Server backups in...
View ArticleSQLCAT at SQLBits 2017
The widely popular SQLBits conference will take place April 5-8 2017 in Telford, UK. Several SQLCAT team members will be presenting a number of breakout sessions. Our topics this year are SQL Server on...
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Try and try again: not always a good idea (at least not for SSMS!)
Contributions from, and reviewed by: Ken Van Hyning, David Shiflet, Charles Gagnon and Alan Ren (SSMS dev team), Dimitri Furman, Mike Weiner and Rajesh Setlem (SQLCAT) Background SQL Server Management...
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Build a recommendation system with the support for graph data in SQL Server...
Authored by Arvind Shyamsundar and Shreya Verma Reviewed by Dimitri Furman, Joe Sack, Sanjay Mishra, Denzil Ribeiro, Mike Weiner, Rajesh Setlem Graphs are a very common way to represent networks and...
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse loading patterns and strategies
Authors: John Hoang, Joe Sack and Martin Lee Abstract This article provides an overview of the Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse architecture. This platform-as-a service (PaaS) offering provides...
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Performance impact of memory grants on data loads into Columnstore tables
Reviewed by: Dimitri Furman, Sanjay Mishra, Mike Weiner, Arvind Shyamsundar, Kun Cheng, Suresh Kandoth, John Hoang Background Some of the best practices when bulk inserting into a clustered Columnstore...
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How the SQLCAT Customer Lab is Monitoring SQL on Linux
Reviewed By: Denzil Ribeiro, Dimitri Furman, Mike Weiner, Rajesh Setlem, Murshed Zaman Background SQLCAT often works with early adopter customers, bring them into our lab, and run their workloads. With...
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Collecting performance data with PSSDIAG for SQL Server on Linux
Reviewed by: Suresh Kandoth,Rajesh Setlem, Steven Schneider, Mike Weiner, Dimitri Furman When analyzing SQL Server performance related issues, customers often have their tools of choice, which can be a...
View ArticleAzure SQL Data Warehouse Workload Patterns and Anti-Patterns
Reviewed by: John Hoang, Dimitri Furman, Mike Weiner, Sanjay Mishra We often get questions from customers related to Azure SQL DW being a good fit for moving a particular database to the cloud. Some of...
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Common ISV application patterns using Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Author: John Hoang Technical Reviewers: Dimitri Furman, Murshed Zaman, Sanjay Mishra Overview This article is one of the several new blogs from the AzureCAT team discussing common customer...
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Instant Log Initialization for SQL Server in Azure
Reviewed by: John Hoang, Denzil Ribeiro, Rajesh Setlem, Mike Weiner Introduction Instant File Initialization (IFI) is a well-known feature of SQL Server, providing significant performance improvement...
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