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SQL Server 2017 Improved Resource Usage On Smaller Machines

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SQL Server is designed to scale across the spectrum of small machines to enterprise class servers. The changes made in SQL Server 2017 CU4 improve resource usage on smaller machines, such as a VM or Container used for testing and development. For SQL Server 2017 CU4 the small environment threshold is 2GB.

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SQL Server Management Studio Provides–“XE Profiler”

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Bob Ward and I worked with our SQL Server Tool developers (thanks David) to enable ‘Q uick XE Trace ’ capabilities. The feature is available in the latest SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) release. Here is an example using the SQL Server SSMS 2017 against my SQL 2016 server.

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SQL Server on Linux: CU4 – NewSequentialId() – Uuid

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Prior to SQL Server 2017 CU4 for Linux (Linux only) the generation of a sequential UUID may not function as expected. SQL Server’s NewSequentialId () calls the Windows API UuidCreateSequential , which is limited in SQLPAL, prior to the CU 4 update. Server B may be generating uuids that sort before those from Server A.

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SQL Server Linux: Directory fsync Activities

SQL Server According to Bob

The SQL Server Host Extension provides file level integrity. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. When a move (rename), create, delete (remove/unlink) occurs the Host Extension issues a fsync on the parent directory as required by Linux.

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SQL Server on Linux: Why Do I Have Two SQL Server Processes

SQL Server According to Bob

When starting SQL Server on Linux why are there two (2) sqlservr processes? systemctl status mssql-server mssql-server.service – Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine … CGroup: /system.slice/mssql-server.service ??85829 Bob Dorr – Principle SQL Server Software Engineer.

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SQL Server Linux: fsync and Buffered I/O

SQL Server According to Bob

I was asked to validate the SQL Server behavior in light of the error condition involving fsync/fdatasync outlined in this article. SQL Server does NOT do this, in fact I made sure SQL Server on Linux does not allow this to occur. This issue does NOT impact SQL Server database, log and backup files.

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How It Works: SQL Server DTC (MSDTC and XA Transactions)

SQL Server According to Bob

Note: SQL Server can be a client using a linked server, allowing SQL Server to become an APP and/or an RM ). The application then uses the SQL Server client (SQL Server ODBC for this example) to establish a TDS based connection to the target SQL Server (local or remote.). Local Host Name. The olehlp!

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