Microsoft at PASS Data Community Summit 2023!
t’s gearing up to be an exciting week November 14th – 17th as we prepare for this year’s Microsoft Ignite and PASS Data Summit all happening at once! While across the way we’ll be sharing the latest from Microsoft all up, taking place at the Con …
Azure Data Studio 1.47 is now available
Just in time for Microsoft Ignite and the PASS Data Community Summit, version 1.47.0 of Azure Data Studio is available with some great new features and a number of bug fixes. The latest features land in preview first. In order to try out a …
Deploying availability groups for SQL Server with HPE Serviceguard for Linux – The Ansible Way!!
It’s time for a new blog on how Ansible can simplify SQL Server deployment, configuration, and availability. If you’ve read my previous blogs on Ansible for SQL Server installation and configuration, and the pacemaker-based Always On availability group …
Entra Authentication for Replication in Arc-enabled SQL Server 2022 CU 6 in Public Preview
As of SQL Server 2022 Cumulative Update (CU) 6, configuring replication using authentication with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) is currently in public preview. Previously, Windows authentication and SQL authentication were …
Packed/Batched Transact-SQL (TSQL) RPC Invocation
The SQL Server TDS protocol provides two main paths for query execution (Language and RPC events.) You can trace these events using the Batch::Starting/Completed (Language) and RPC:Starting/Completed (RPC) XEvents. Language events are text …
SQL Server 2022 Common Criteria EAL4 Certification
After SQL’s first Common Criteria (CC) certification of version 2005 (Yukon), SQL Server 2022 (SQL22) is the 8th major release that has successfully completed this security attestation. Continuous improvements to internal processes have enabled …
Cumulative Update #23 for SQL Server 2019 RTM
The 23rd 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 m …
Cumulative Update #9 for SQL Server 2022 RTM
The 9th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2022 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 …
Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM CU8
The Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM CU8 is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites. This package cumulatively includes all previous SQL Server 2022 fixes through CU8, plus it includes …
Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM CU22
The Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM CU22 is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites. This package cumulatively includes all previous SQL Server 2019 fixes through CU22, plus it include …
Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM GDR
The Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM GDR is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites. This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2019 RTM, plus it incl …
Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM GDR
The Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM GDR is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites. This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2017 RTM, plus it incl …
SQL Server 2022 on SUSE Enterprise Linux v15 SP5 – Azure Marketplace image is now available!
You might have already seen the post for SQL on SLES 15 SP4 release, where we announced the support for SQL Server 2022 on SLES 15 SP4. Our aim is to enable our customers to deploy their SQL Server workloads on the latest Linux OS supported platforms. …
Enterprise vs EnterpriseCore Edition for SQL Server on Linux production Workloads
Recently, in one of the meetings with our CSS team (support) we realized that our customers might not be selecting the right Enterprise edition for their SQL Servers deployed on Linux. To learn more about different SQL Server editions please refer …
Protect SQL Server 2014 workloads with Azure flexibility
SQL Server has brought reliability and security to mission-critical workloads for 30 years. SQL Server 2022, released November 2022, delivers performance enhancements as well as Azure connectivity for disaster recovery, analytics, and governance. Now c …