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Solving Tempdb Issues
While reading Remus Rusanu’s piece on SQL Server 2016 development, there was an item that struck me. There’s a part of the piece where he notes that an engineer at Microsoft realized that there was a tempdb issue with Azure … Continue reading
Cloud First
SQL Server 2016 is the first “cloud first” release of SQL Server, as told to us by Remus Rusanu, former Microsoft SQL Server development team member. The features and enhancements in SQL Server 2016 have been running in the Azure … Continue reading
Changing the sa Password with SQLCMD
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I wanted to make a quick note on changing the sa password, as this is a sensitive account, and … Continue reading
Guess the RTM Build
I’m going to take a page from Joey D’Antoni and start a contest. We’ve gotten quite a few releases of SQL Server 2016, including now 4 Release Candidates (RC). RC3 was released recently, and noted as being feature complete. I … Continue reading