Released: SSRS and SSAS Management Packs now monitoring 2012 and up (7.0.22.0)
This update enables the new version-agnostic management packs for SSRS and SSAS to monitor versions 2012, 2014, and 2016 in addition to already supported 2017, 2019. The old management packs for SSRS and SSAS 2008-2016 – version-specific ones …
Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is now open source
Accelerating big data analytics with the Spark connector for SQL ServerWe’re happy to announce that we have open–sourced the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL on GitHub. Born out of Microsoft’s SQL Server Big Data Clusters …
Cumulative Update #5 for SQL Server 2019 RTM
The 5th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2019 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates. To learn more about the release or servicing mo …
The June 2020 release of Azure Data Studio is now available
The June release of Azure Data Studio is now available. Download Azure Data Studio and review the release notes to get started.Note: After downloading Azure Data Studio, say Yes to enabling preview features so that you can use extensions.Azure Data Stu …
Data Exposed | Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database (Part 1)
In the first part of this two-part video series, Kate Smith gives an introduction to what Azure SQL Database Elastic jobs are, and when you should consider using them, as well as what products support Elastic Jobs. Watch on Data Exposed A …
Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database (Part 1) | Data Exposed
In the first part of this two-part video series, Kate Smith gives an introduction to what Azure SQL Database Elastic jobs are, and when you should consider using them, as well as what products support Elastic Jobs. Watch on Data Exposed A …
Join Microsoft at PASS Virtual Summit 2020
This year’s PASS Summit conference, the largest gathering of data professionals focused on the Microsoft platform, will be a virtual-only event for the first time.This will make PASS Virtual Summit 2020 more accessible than ever, giving attendees from …
Released: SQL Server Assessment Extension for Azure Data Studio (Public Preview)
SQL Server Assessment Extension for Azure Data Studio provides a user interface for evaluating your SQL Server instances and databases for best practices. It uses SQL Assessment API to achieve this. In this preview version, you can: – Assess a SQL Serv …
Released: General Availability of Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.0
We have released for general availability Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.0. This .NET Data Provider for SQL Server provides general connectivity to the database and supports all the latest SQL Server features for applications targeting .NET Framework, .NET …
Expanding SQL Server Big Data Clusters capabilities, now on Red Hat OpenShift
SQL Server Big Data Clusters (BDC) is a new capability brought to market as part of the SQL Server 2019 release. BDC extends SQL Server’s analytical capabilities beyond in-database processing of transactional and analytical workloads by uniting the SQL …
Improving concurrency of asynchronous statistics update
Executive summary In Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance, the background process that updates statistics asynchronously can now wait for the schema modification lock on a low priority queue. This improves concurrency for workloads …
How to troubleshooting “SQL Server is terminating because of fatal exception c06d007e”
Case 1, with Dump generated Issue definition: ======== Customer have SQL 2008/2012/2014 running on the same server, and then applied the SP4 for SQL Server 2012 in Windows update. But after this customer saw some issue from application side, then you r …
How to troubleshoot “SQL Server is terminating because of fatal exception c06d007e”
Case 1, with Dump generated Issue definition: ======== Customer have SQL 2008/2012/2014 running on the same server, and then applied the SP4 for SQL Server 2012 in Windows update. But after this customer saw some issue from application side, then you r …
Schema change getting applied repeatedly every time Merge agent runs
Recently worked on an interesting case. Customer had an existing Merge Replication and it was working fine. They added a new article to the existing Publication and ran the Snapshot Agent. Now Every time Merge agent runs we see that Schema changes were …
Rowgoal impacts the estimated row
The engineer asked me a question, how does the optimizer estimate the row for index scan(range scan). he observed 100-109 estimated row for index scan but he wants to know the reason. As my understanding, if there is no predicated, the es …