SQL Server 2019 features

Overview of SQL Server 2019 General Availability and installation

November 19, 2019 by

Introduction On November 4th, 2019, during the Ignite conference at Orlando, Microsoft released the General Availability of its flagship product Microsoft SQL Server 2019. SQL 2019 provides various enhancements to its core database engine and offers integration with Big data (Apache Spark, Data Lake), Machine learning, Linux/container compatibility with Kubernetes.

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August 27, 2019 by

APX1086 – Check syntax errors Description: This rule evaluates the T-SQL script for any syntax error, by parsing the T-SQL statement and show any errors. It is recommended to check the documentation for each T-SQL statement in order to use it in the query properly. For more information visit https://www.tsql.info/ Example script:

Message: Incorrect […]

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SSIS OLE DB Source: SQL Command vs Table or View

August 22, 2019 by

Introduction SQL Server Integration Services provides a wide variety of features that helps developers to build a robust Extract, Transform, and Load process. After many years contributing to SSIS-related tags on Stackoverflow.com, I can say that many developers have some misunderstandings about SSIS features (SSIS OLE DB Source, SSIS Expressions, SQL Server destination …) especially […]

Screenshot of Query Store fully enabled.

Performance Monitoring via SQL Server Query Store

August 19, 2019 by

SQL Server Query Store is a performance monitoring tool that helps us evaluate the performance of a SQL query in terms of several different performance metrics such as CPU and Memory Consumption, execution time and the I/O cycles consumed by the query. Query store is similar to the windows “Task Manager”. A task manager provides […]