SQL Server Customer Advisory Team

This week in Seattle, PASS Summit 2018 will be happening for the twentieth time. As for many years...

Date: 11/05/2018

This article was co-authored by Dimitri Furman and Denzil Ribeiro Reviewed by: Danimir Ljepava,...

Date: 09/26/2018

Reviewed by: Kun Cheng, Borko Novakovic, Jovan Popovic, Denzil Ribeiro, Rajesh Setlem, Arvind...

Date: 07/20/2018

Team members from Microsoft AzureCAT (a.k.a. DataCAT / SQLCAT) will be presenting a full-day...

Date: 07/16/2018

Reviewed by: Dimitri Furman, Xiaochen Wu Apache Spark is a distributed processing framework commonly...

Date: 05/12/2018

Reviewed By: Ajay Kalhan, Borko Novakovic, Drazen Sumic, Branislav Uzelac In the current Azure SQL...

Date: 05/04/2018

Reviewed by: Kun Cheng, Borko Novakovic, Arvind Shyamsundar, Mike Weiner Azure SQL Database Managed...

Date: 05/04/2018

Reviewed by: Rajesh Setlem, Mike Weiner, Xiaochen Wu With thanks to Joey D’Antoni (blog) for asking...

Date: 01/22/2018

Reviewed by: Dimitri Furman, Kun Cheng This blog is an extension to the one that was published in...

Date: 10/30/2017

Are you coming to the PASS Summit 2017 in Seattle? SQLCAT will be in full force at the PASS Summit...

Date: 10/30/2017

Reviewed by: Kun Cheng, John Hoang, Denzil Ribeiro, Rajesh Setlem Over the years, we have been...

Date: 10/23/2017

Authored by Arvind Shyamsundar (Microsoft) Credits: Prasad Wagle, Srinivasa Babu Valluri, Arun...

Date: 10/19/2017

Authored by Arvind Shyamsundar (Microsoft) Credits: Prasad Wagle, Srinivasa Babu Valluri, Arun...

Date: 10/16/2017

Reviewed by: Dimitri Furman, John Hoang, Mike Weiner, Rajesh Setlem Most people familiar with Azure...

Date: 10/06/2017

SQL 2017 bits are generally available to customers today. One of the most notable milestones in the...

Date: 10/03/2017

Authors: Rangarajan Srirangam, Mandar Inamdar, John Hoang Reviewers: Murshed Zaman, Sanjay Mishra,...

Date: 09/19/2017

Reviewed by: John Hoang, Denzil Ribeiro, Rajesh Setlem, Mike Weiner Introduction Instant File...

Date: 09/11/2017

Date: 09/05/2017

Reviewed by: Suresh Kandoth,Rajesh Setlem, Steven Schneider, Mike Weiner, Dimitri Furman When...

Date: 08/11/2017

Reviewed By: Denzil Ribeiro, Dimitri Furman, Mike Weiner, Rajesh Setlem, Murshed Zaman Background...

Date: 07/03/2017

Reviewed by: Dimitri Furman, Sanjay Mishra, Mike Weiner, Arvind Shyamsundar, Kun Cheng, Suresh...

Date: 06/02/2017

Authors: John Hoang, Joe Sack and Martin Lee Abstract This article provides an overview of the...

Date: 05/17/2017

Authored by Arvind Shyamsundar and Shreya Verma Reviewed by Dimitri Furman, Joe Sack, Sanjay Mishra,...

Date: 04/21/2017

The widely popular SQLBits conference will take place April 5-8 2017 in Telford, UK. Several SQLCAT...

Date: 03/30/2017

Reviewed by: Pat Schaefer, Rajesh Setlem, Xiaochen Wu, Murshed Zaman All SQL Server versions...

Date: 03/10/2017

Reviewed by: Steven Schneider, Sanjay Mishra, Mike Weiner, Kun Cheng, Dimitri Furman, Arvind...

Date: 02/23/2017

Written by: Josh Gnanayutham, Program Manager, SQL EngineeringIntroductionAs users are increasingly...

Date: 02/03/2017

Reviewed by: Mike Weiner, Murshed Zaman A fundamental part of ensuring application resiliency to...

Date: 01/29/2017

Reviewers: Dimitri Furman, John Hoang, Mike Weiner, Denzil Ribeiro, Joe Yong Background: Azure SQL...

Date: 12/20/2016

Reviewed by: Dimitri Furman,Sanjay Mishra, Mike Weiner With the introduction of the Temporal feature...

Date: 12/08/2016

Reviewed by: Kun Cheng, John Hoang, Sanjay Mishra, Borko Novakovic, Denzil Ribeiro, Murshed Zaman...

Date: 11/10/2016

Written by: Biljana Lazic (bwin – Senior DBA) and Rick Kutschera (bwin – Engineering Manager)....

Date: 10/26/2016

Reviewed by: Steven Green, Peng Song, Xiaochen Wu, Kun Cheng, Sanjay Mishra Introduction Database...

Date: 10/20/2016

Reviewed by: Sanjay Mishra, Umachandar Jayachandran, Dimitri Furman, Jeannine Nelson-Takaki, Joe...

Date: 10/20/2016

Sanjay Mishra Reviewed By: Dimitri Furman, Murshed Zaman, Kun Cheng If you have tried to use BULK...

Date: 10/19/2016

Authors: Arvind Shyamsundar, Sanjay Mishra, Subodh Patil (iCertis), Mukesh Singh (iCertis), Ravi...

Date: 10/07/2016

Sanjay Mishra, Arvind Shyamsundar Reviewed by: Dimitri Furman, Denzil Ribeiro, Mike Ruthruff, Mike...

Date: 09/29/2016

Hi all, we are looking forward, as we are sure you are, to a great Microsoft Ignite 2016! Three...

Date: 09/24/2016

A question that is frequently asked by customers using Azure SQL Database is “How can I determine...

Date: 09/21/2016

Reviewed by: Dimitri Furman, Jakub Szymaszek, Sanjay Mishra, Kun Cheng, Mike Ruthruff Background A...

Date: 09/15/2016

Reviewed by: Kun Cheng, Sanjay Mishra, Denzil Ribeiro, Arvind Shyamsundar, Mike Weiner, and Murshed...

Date: 09/13/2016

Reviewed by: Dimitri Furman, Kun Cheng, Denzil Ribeiro Database Instant File Initialization helps...

Date: 08/23/2016

Authors: Rangarajan Srirangam, Mandar Inamdar Contributors and Reviewers: John Hoang, Sanjay Mishra,...

Date: 08/18/2016

Reviewed By: Dimitri Furman DBCC CHECKDB is a common database maintenance task. It can take up...

Date: 08/17/2016

Reviewed By: Denzil Ribeiro, Kun Cheng Deleting all rows from a given partition is a very common...

Date: 08/11/2016

Reviewed by Panagiotis Antonopoulos, Jakub Szymaszek, Raghav Kaushik Always Encrypted is one of the...

Date: 08/09/2016

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