MSSQLTIGER and May PASS Virtual Conferences
Tiger is delivering another session on an upcoming Performance Virtual Chapter (VC) meeting. This time the topic is about “Gems to help you troubleshoot query performance”. What are we discussing in...
View ArticleMSSQLTIGER and April PASS Virtual Conferences
PASS Virtual Chapters (VC) are interest-based forums that unite the SQL Server community through live webcasts with top SQL Server experts, online forums and resources – including an archive of past...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016: Changes in default behavior for autogrow and allocations for...
Configuration of TEMPDB is often critical to scalability and throughput of SQL Server applications. The following link (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2964518) outlines how to configure SQL...
View ArticlePerformance Improvements in SQL Server Dashboards Management Pack
We recently released new Community Technology Preview bits for SQL Server Dashboards MP as well as other SQL product family MPs. You can find the CTP2 blog post with a link to the download page here....
View ArticleMSSQLTIGER and June PASS Virtual Conferences
The Tiger team will be delivering another set virtual chapter sessions for Security, High Availability and DBA Fundamentals in June which are mentioned below. Stay tuned to our blog to find out about...
View Article#AskSQLTiger Twitter Chat on June 27
Have you ever wanted the opportunity to ask the MSSQLTIGER team about SQL Server? Join the SQL Server Tiger team for a Twitter Chat on Monday, June 27th from 10 -11 AM PST. You can ask anything about...
View ArticleNew defaults for model and user databases in SQL Server 2016
In the previous blog post on Changes in default behavior for autogrow and allocations for tempdb and user databases, we discussed how some of the commonly used trace flags (1117, 1118) are no longer...
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Dynamic Memory Object Scaling
Overview This blog provides an example of turning a customer escalation to Tiger team into a successful engagement and using the learnings to deliver improvements in the SQL Server product to scale on...
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Memory grant related diagnostics
Back in March I blogged about Addressing large memory grant requests from optimized Nested Loops. To further enhance discoverability of memory grant related issues, in SQL Server 2016 and 2014 SP2 we...
View ArticleMSSQLTIGER and July PASS Virtual Conferences
The Tiger Team presented another session in PASS Virtual Conference: DBA Fundamentals Chapter on SQL Server Performance Baselining and Monitoring yesterday. The details of the session, links for slides...
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Tiger Team at SQL Server Geeks Summit 2016
Tiger Team (@mssqltiger) represented by (Sudhakar Sannakkayala, Bob Ward, Sunil Agarwal and Ajay Jagannathan) will be in full force by speaking at 14 sessions at the SQL Server Geeks Annual Summit...
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Remote Blob Storage (RBS) client library setup requirements in SQL Server 2016
Remote BLOB Store (RBS) is a client library with SQL Server which allows developers to store, access, retrieve binary large objects (BLOBs) outside SQL Server database files while still maintaining the...
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Operator progress changes in LQS
One of the useful features that shipped with SQL Server 2016 is LQS (Live Query Statistics), which is also compatible with SQL Server 2014. This feature provides real-time insights into the query...
View ArticleImproving Concurrency & Scalability of SQL Server workload by optimizing...
Starting SQL 2012, database containment property is introduced in SQL Server database to support contained databases. As described in MSDN article here, database collation not only applies to data...
View ArticleTransactional Replication and Always On Availability Groups Support Update
In the past, we have received multiple requests from customers for supporting transactional replication republishers in an Always On Availability Group configuration. We are pleased to announce that...
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Understanding the requirements for SeSecurityPrivilege to SQL setup account...
One of the actions of SQL Server setup is to configure appropriate permissions on the binaries, data, log, tempdb, backup folders such that post-installation, SQL Service account has all the required...
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MSSQLTIGER Team at the PASS Summit
It’s that time of the year again when data professionals across the world converge at Seattle for one of the largest gatherings of data professionals around the world. This is one week of deep...
View ArticleSomething for the SQL Server Backup Vendors
SQL Server VSS allows ISVs to develop backup solutions using APIs exposed by VSS framework. One such API method which is commonly used while performing differential backup using SQL VSS is...
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Change Tracking Cleanup–Part 1
Change tracking is a lightweight solution that provides an efficient change tracking mechanism for applications which was introduced in SQL Server 2008. We recently had a number of customers ask us...
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Filestream RsFx Driver fails to load after installing SQL Server 2016 with...
Starting Windows 10 version 1607 (Redstone 1) and Windows Server 2016, there is a new enforcement for kernel drivers, requiring that all kernel drivers must be signed by Windows Hardware Developer...
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