For this blog post I want to discuss the meaning behind SQL Server: Memory Manager\Target Server Memory (KB) and SQL Server: Memory Manager \Total memory (KB) Perfmon counters. I will mention how under different situations and configuration settings their behaviour changes.
Since installing SQL Server vNext CTP 1.3 I found out that there is a new way to return statistics histogram for a specific stat which actually is also available with the latest Cumulative Update for SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1.
I had a need to setup transactional replication from my SQL Server to SQL Database (Azure) where I only needed a selection of tables that I wanted to off-load to Azure. For this post I will be going through the setup, post checks with T-SQL / replication monitor, checking the incoming commands with Azure’s query performance insight tool and finally hooking it up to Power BI.
Working with a couple of databases that needed TDE I noticed when I enabled one of them that it was stuck on “encryption in progress” for quite a while.
I have been pretty busy recently working with Joe Sack from Microsoft and getting my hands dirty with SQL Server vNext accessing some cool stuff (which obviously I can’t talk about – under NDA) and believe me it is pretty powerful stuff.
Taking a step back vNext is going to be a big deal, bringing us new features such as support for running SQL Server on Linux (Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu) and Docker containers, adaptive query processing, SQL graph, improvements to R Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, and Integration Services.
I was working with the most recent release SQL Server vNext CTP 1.2 (January 2017) and more specifically the adaptive query processing area and it is a powerful concept. Just helping the guys at Microsoft validate some things made me realise what amazing stuff is in the pipeline. Joe has already blogged about a section within this space called batch mode adaptive memory grant feedback. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlserverstorageengine/2016/11/29/introducing-batch-mode-adaptive-memory-grant-feedback/ but I was working on something else <BIG SMILE>.
It really is an exciting time to be involved with the SQL Server product because I know there is more to come. It’s probably the right time to thank Joe for answering my questions and being very patient with me to really allow me to help them.
Hopefully I can keep helping with future releases of this product because from writing articles, blogging and building my codeplex project it is mini projects like this that really makes me smile. (Yes I include the SQLskills waits library in that too)
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