A Big Deal : SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1
Microsoft has made a bold change with SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 : Many Enterprise features are now available in lower editions. Read on for details.
2016-12-13
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SQL Server 2016
2016-12-09
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Experience SQL Server 2016 in Microsoft Luxembourg’s Intelligent Office
The SQL Server Luxembourg User Group invites you to join us at our next event, in Microsoft’s new Intelligent Offices, for Tom van Zele’s SQL 2016 presentation. Tom’s road-show session highlights SQL Server 2016’s new features: End-to-end mobile BI, advanced analytics, cloud integration and lots of other new stuff will be addressed.
2016-11-28 (first published: 2016-11-23)
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SQL Server 2016 DBCC CHECKDB with MAXDOP
Ahmad Yaseen explains how you can control the number of processors assigned to the SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB command in order to free-up the server's resources.
2016-10-28
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Time Traveling with Temporal Tables on SQL Server 2016
One of the new features of SQL Server 2016 is the ability to time travel in your databases and visit a specific table at a specific point of time in history. You can also use this feature to audit changes or “undo” whole data warehouse updates.
2017-09-04 (first published: 2016-10-18)
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SQL Server 2016 New Date Objects
SQL Server 2016 introduced three new objects to deal with the greater demand of data; John Miner takes a look at this new functionality.
2016-10-13
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2016-10-07
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Masking Your Data with SQL Server 2016
There are times when you want some users to see part of a column value but not the whole thing, but you want other users to see the complete column value without any masking. The new SQL Server 2016 Dynamic Data Masking feature will allow you to define these different kinds of masking rules - Greg Larson explains.
2016-09-29
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AT TIME ZONE – a new favourite feature in SQL Server 2016
Rob Farley explains why AT TIME ZONE is his new favourite feature in SQL Server 2016, but also shows that it can make a mess of cardinality estimates.
2016-09-22
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Real-time Operational Analytics in SQL Server 2016 - Part 1
Arshad Ali takes a look at traditional analytics architecture, the challenges it faces, and how the newly introduced Real-time Operational Analytics feature overcomes those challenges.
2016-09-12
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More Funny SELECTs
What does this code return?
SELECT
( SELECT COUNT (*), MAX(soh.OrderDate) AS latestorder
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
WHERE
soh.OrderDate > '01/01/2011'
AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2012') AS OrdersIn2000
, ( SELECT COUNT (*), MAX(soh.OrderDate) AS latestorder
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
WHERE
soh.OrderDate > '01/01/2012'
AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2013') AS OrdersIn2001
, ( SELECT COUNT (*), MAX(soh.OrderDate) AS latestorder
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
WHERE
soh.OrderDate > '01/01/2013'
AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2014') AS OrdersIn2002;
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