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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Whereas many open source software offerings — like the community version of MySQL — use the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), MongoDB has been under the GNU Affero General Public License ( AGPL ) and more recently under the Server Side Public License ( SSPL ), introduced by MongoDB itself. looking out for MongoDB Inc.

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Bucketizing date and time data

SQL Performance

One is using a function called DATE_BUCKET , which at the time of writing is only available in Azure SQL Edge. Another is using a custom calculation that emulates the DATE_BUCKET function, which you can use in any version, edition, and flavor of SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. DATE_BUCKET. Emulating DATE_BUCKET.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. The Back Story.

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Deprecated features to take out of your toolbox – Part 2

SQL Performance

This time around, I want to talk about a feature included with SQL Server client tools that we should not be using these days – not just because it is deprecated but, more importantly, because it has the potential to completely take a server down: SQL Server Profiler. Not too long ago, something like this happened to us.

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The SQL Server Basic Installer: Just Install It!

SQL Server According to Bob

20+ years ago when I joined Microsoft I was handed a diskette (maybe it was two), and was told “Here is SQL Server. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 There was a GUI as part of setup but within just a few clicks, SQL Server was installed and ready for use. So now there are more choices to make when installing SQL Server.

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SQL Server Mysteries: The Case of TDE and Permanent Tempdb Encryption

SQL Server According to Bob

My goal is to resolve mysteries about SQL Server I encounter but do this without going straight the source code first. The first case that helped me start this journey was asked by a MVP within the SQL Server community (his first name starts with Joey<g>). The question went something like this….

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What Am I Working On (RDORR): SQL Server On Linux

SQL Server According to Bob

To some of you SQL Server On Linux is old news from various announcements made a couple of months ago. Yes, SQL Server runs on Linux! It was Jan 2015, in my previous supportability role, that I started looking at SQL Server on Linux. I proceeded to install an Ubuntu VM and the internal build of SQL Server on Linux.

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