SQL SERVER – SQLPASS 2016 – Feedback and Rating – Kick Start! SQL Server 2016 Performance Tips and Tricks

Earlier this year, I presented at SQLPASS 2016, Seattle on SQL Server 2016 and I am very happy to see the feedback of my sessions. I have presented two sessions and I will write feedback of one session in this blog post and another one later this week. my session was about SQL Server 2016 Performance Tips and Tricks.

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SQL Authority News – Download SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Microsoft has earlier released SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (SP1). This particular SP1 is one of the kind service pack and I will say it is a milestone move by Microsoft.

Now with this SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1, Standard Edition will have many of the features which existed in only in Enterprise Edition. In simple words, now SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition will have many of the exclusive features of SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Edition after installation of SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1.

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SQL SERVER – Unable to Bring Resource Online – Error – Could Not Find Any IP Address that this SQL Server Instance Depends Upon

When it rains, it pours. In the last few days last few contacts from my customers were for cluster related issues. Once again, the SQL Server resource was not coming online in failover cluster manager. I asked them to check if ERRORLOG is being generated and if yes, share the content. SQL SERVER – Where is ERRORLOG? Various Ways to Find ERRORLOG Location. Let us learn how to fix Unable to Bring Resource Online.

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