There are a whole raft of cool new features in 2014 including things like In-Memory OLTP, increased Azure integration/options and a new cardinality estimation design to name a few. But for me, one of the most important features in 2014 is the increase in memory that standard edition can use has been increased from 64GB to 128GB. I currently work […]
Read MoreI’ve been using the backup to azure feature for a short while now and I really like it. Shows I think as this is my 4th blog post on the subject this year! This feature has reduced my stress levels with regard to secure offsite backups. However, so far I have two gripes with it. Firstly, if there is an […]
Read MoreI’ve been using the backup to Azure feature that shipped with SQL2012 SP1 CU2 and generally it works really well, but a couple of times I have had an issue where I wasn’t able to overwrite a previous backup file and received an error: Msg 3202, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Write on https://somestorage.blob.core.windows.net/somecontainer/MyDb.bak failed: Backup to URL received […]
Read MoreIt has been a little while since I posted something and I’ve been meaning to finish off this blog for a few weeks now, but I have been a little busy with the arrival of my 2nd son (and have been distracted by my new Alienware laptop!)… Anyway I recently blogged about how cool I thought the new feature was […]
Read MoreThere is a new CU update for SQL 2012 SP1 and I noticed a very interesting new feature described in the documentation blogged here. This is one of two new improvements and it is described as: You can now directly create a backup to Windows Azure Storage using SQL Server Native Backup functionality. This will allow users to back up […]
Read MoreIs all set to be officially known as SQL 2012 and will be finally released in……. 2012! Announced at the PASS Summit 2011, it is due to be released to manufactoring in the first half of next year. The other major announcement from PASS was Microsoft actively supporting the Hadoop project.
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