We had a case over the weekend where our automated restore process at client got hung up on this wait type, for a single database. What was the unique characteristic about this relatively medium (2-300 GB) database? It had a lot of filestream data–it seemed like the file count wasn’t that high, but my guess […]
Tag: SQL Server 2016
A Lesson in DR, Azure Site Recovery, and Troubleshooting
I need to blog more. Stupid being busy. Anyway, last week, we were doing a small scale test for a customer, and it didn’t work the way we were expecting, and for one of the dumbest reasons I’ve ever seen. If you aren’t familiar with Azure Site Recovery it provides disk level replication for VMs, […]
Exporting Masked Data with Dynamic Data Masking
The SQL Herald | Databases et al… Dynamic Data Masking is a presentation layer that got added to Azure SQL DB and SQL Server 2016. In a nutshell it prevents end users from seeing sensitive data, and lets administrators show some data (e.g. the last 4 digits of social security number) for verification purposes. I’m […]
SQL Server 2016 Database Mail Not Working
One of the nice things about SQL Server 2016 is that .NET 3.5 is no longer required for installation. The .NET requirement wouldn’t have been problematic, but in order to add the .NET feature access to the Windows media was required (this was particularly painful in Azure VMs). Fortunately the product team eliminated the requirement […]
SQL Server 2016—The Licensing Info
SQL Server 2016 launched last week to great reviews and with a ton of great new features. I have been working with this version for well over a year now and extremely happy to see it hit RTM and be broadly adopted. So as DBAs it always sucks when you get excited about new features, […]
SQL Server 2016—Standard Edition Doesn’t Suck!
Yesterday Microsoft announced SQL Server 2016 was launching on June 1st. I can say this is the most production ready version of SQL Server I have ever worked on. I have had a customer on production since last August. We have been very happy and stable, and performance has been fantastic, we are using columnstore, […]