Microsoft’sSQL Assessment APIprovides a mechanism to evaluate the database configuration of SQL Server for best practices. The API is delivered with a ruleset containing best practice rules suggested by the SQL Server Team. While this ruleset is enhanced with the release of new versions, the ...
As a best practice, use the SSMA assessment report, which shows the conversion results, including errors, warnings, informational messages, time estimates for performing the migration, and individual error correction steps to take before you actually move the objects. Converting database objects takes...
Finally, if you are using SQL Server prior 2016, you should consider to upgrade to the latest version of the product. SQL Server 2016 has several internal optimizations, which dramatically increase Availability Groups throughput comparing to SQL Server 2012 and 2014. It may be the simplest solutio...
Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance Sets Transact-SQL and query processing behaviors to be compatible with the specified version of the SQL engine. For other ALTER DATABASE options, see ALTER DATABASE. For more information about the syntax co...
Recommended best practice SQL Ports for multi-instance environment Recommended Response Time for Sql Server Database recovery mode = simple but ldf grows Recreate tempdb files Recurring error - The incoming tabular data stream (TDS) protocol stream is incorrect. The MARS TDS header contained errors....
don’t want an individual account to be an owner of a database in case they leave the company and their account gets disabled. It is a best practice to make either ‘sa’ account the owner of the database, if sql authentication is enabled, or assign a service account to the ownership...
This practice avoids cross-computer calls and simplifies configuration. Required configuration for workload comparison using DEA DEA connects to database servers using Windows authentication. Be sure that the user running DEA can connect to database servers (source, target, and analysis) using Windows...
Applies to: SQL ServerFor SQL Server Enterprise and Standard editions, this rule checks for non-read-only user databases that have recovery set to simple. For production databases, we recommend that you use the full recovery model instead of the simple recovery model. The full recovery mode...
Learn how to create the most common types of database users by using SQL Server Management Studio or Transact-SQL.
It is always good practice to refer to database objects by a schema name and the object name, separated by a period (.). For a complete example, to SELECT records from theEmployeetable in the HumanResources schema of the current database would look like: ...