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Audit SQL Server stop, start, restart

March 27, 2018 Mar 27, 2018 03/27/18
Developer Support
In this article, Application Development Manager Steve Keeler outlines an approach for determining the domain identity of a user who has initiated a stop, start, or restart request on SQL Server services. Although SQL Server contains server and database auditing functionality as part of the product, this cannot be used to determine the ...

PolyBase – How SQL Server does Big data!

February 12, 2018 Feb 12, 2018 02/12/18
Developer Support
In this post, Senior App Dev Manager Nayan Patel introduces SQL Server PolyBase and shares some insights from a recent engagement using the technology.I was recently involved in helping my customer complete a successful PoC around SQL Server 2016’s PolyBase feature.  They have invested a signification amount of budget and resources ...

Microsoft’s Geospatial Capabilities

January 30, 2018 Jan 30, 2018 01/30/18
Pam Lahoud
In a recent article published on LinkedIn, Premier Developer consultant Ron Vincent highlights some of Microsoft’s geospatial capabilities, both past and present.Microsoft has for some time now had some level of geospatial capabilities but since Azure has come along there has been many developments on this front. In this article, I think it...

The High Availability Conversation Part 1: Introduction

February 3, 2017 Feb 3, 2017 02/3/17
Monu Bambroo
In this post, Senior Consultant, Bradley Ball discusses High Availability for SQL Server. In this latest blog post PSfD Consultant Bradley Ball begins the High Availability Conversation based off of a question on Twitter.  He answers the questions what do the Three Bears have to do with HA planning and the business users and IT management...

SQL Server 2016: It Just Runs Faster

October 20, 2016 Oct 20, 2016 10/20/16
Developer Support
Does the marketing live up to the hype?  Senior ADM, Paul King shares some perspective from the field. Upgrading between major versions of a product can sometimes be a painful and time consuming task.  Development organizations often have to spend time going over depreciated feature lists to make sure that their applications will still ...