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Getting started with Microsoft Azure – Creating Azure SQL Database(DaaS)
In this blog post, Let’s see how to create a Microsoft Azure SQL database and how to connect to it from your SSMS client tool remotely. Pre-Req: you need to have an Azure subscription. You can sign up...
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Azure SQL DB using SSMS – Things you should know.
Hey folks…In this post let’s see few things which you should be aware of, to avoid any surprises when connecting to your Microsoft Azure SQL DB from your SSMS. First thing you might notice is there are...
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How to connect to Azure VM SQL Server from SSMS?
In one of my previous posts, I’ve shown how to connect to Azure SQL DB(DaaS) from your local SSMS. In this post, let’s see how you can connect to SQL Server Instance which is running inside your Azure...
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SQL Server 2016 announced :)
Not sure if you guys have got a chance to grab updates from Microsoft Ignite event(Previously called TechEd), So here is a news for you. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced SQL Server 2016 day...
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SSMS 2016 CTP 2.1 Web Setup – Installation Error.
Recently, Microsoft released SQL Server 2016 CTP for public and today I decided to Just install SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.1 Management Studio on my Windows 7 machine by using “SSMS-Web-Setup.exe”. (I tried...
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SQL Server 2012 SP2 CU7 – @@Version
Today I was testing CU7 for SQL Server 2012 SP2 and as usual after installing CU on our test server, as a practice I was reviewing the Error Log and interestingly it mentioned CU7 during the startup!...
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Installing SQL Server 2016 – Is it any different?
Howdy…it’s been a long time I’ve written something related to SQL Server here in my blog. So here I am, I took some time out of my holidays to download and Install SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.0 in my...
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SQL Server on Linux – Too good to be True!
Microsoft just announced that they are going to support SQL Server on Linux! Yup, that’s true. They also say private preview of SQL Server is already available starting today for customers who are...
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Installing Linux (CentOS 7) on a VM.
All these days…I’ve seen my fellow Oracle/MySQL DBAs working on NIX platforms, but I haven’t really got a chance to work Full time on these machines being a SQL Server DBA. Well, with Microsoft’s...
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SQL Server 2016 AlwaysON AG setup – Part 1
This is a quick guide on how to configure AlwaysON AGs on SQL Server 2016. This blog post isn’t a thorough walk through, My goal in this post is to show you guys what’s different in SQL 2016 comparing...
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SQL Server 2016 AlwaysON AG setup – Part 2
Now that I’ve created a windows cluster and installed SQL server on all the three nodes(Part 1), I am ready to configure AGs. Below is the screenshots tour. You can see a new option “Database Level...
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SQL Server 2016 Cluster setup – What’s changed?
In this short blog post let’s take a screenshots tour of SQL Server 2016 Failover cluster installation and see if Microsoft made any significant changes to the setup process. In the above two...
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Setting up TDE on SQL Server Failover Cluster
Back in 2011 I wrote couple of Blog posts when I was initially exploring Encryption options we have in SQL Server. Never really got a chance to work on TDE since then. Fast forward to 2016, I am...
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Lab setup – AlwaysOn AGs in a Multi Subnet Cluster – Part 1
Let’s see how to setup an AG(SQL 2016) in a multi subnet cluster(Geo cluster) in a lab environment. Below is my lab setup: Two Replicas sitting in my Production Data center.(Subnet 192.168.1.x) – Sync...
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Lab setup – AlwaysOn AGs in a Multi Subnet Cluster – Part 2
In part1, I’ve shown how to create a windows cluster in a multi subnet setup. In this post let’s see how to create a AG and corresponding listener. In my lab, I will be creating two AGs and two...
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How to move AlwaysON AG Databases ?
Back in 2011, we have seen how to move a database which is participating in DB Mirroring here. In this blog post, let’s see how to move a database which is participating in a AG to a new...
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Upgrading Windows Failover Cluster 2012R2 to 2016
In this blog post, let’s see how to upgrade a Windows Server 2012R2 Failover cluster to Windows Server 2016. My current LAB setup is a 3 node cluster, all running 2012R2 and I decided to upgrade them...
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How to create a SQL Server Instance on Amazon RDS
In this blog post let’s see how to create a SQL Server Instance on Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service). I will be using defaults for most of the part in this screenshot tour to keep it simple....
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Microsoft Loves Linux – Installing SQL Server on Linux
In this blog post, let’s see how to Install SQL Server on Linux. It’s been a while since Microsoft announced SQL on Linux, but I thought of waiting for a while before I set this thing in my lab. With...
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Managing SQL Server Services in Linux Environment
In the previous blog post we have seen how to Install SQL Server on Linux(CENTOS). In this post, let’s see how to manage SQL Server Services in Linux environment. After all as a DBA, we should know how...
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