Choosing the primary key in a database is one of the most important steps in the process. It can be a normalattributethat is guaranteed to be unique such as Social Security number on a table with no more than one record per person or — preferably — it can be generated by the databa...
A primary key, also called a primary keyword, is a column in arelational databasetable that's distinctive for each record. It's aunique identifier, such as a driver's license number, telephone number with area code or vehicle identification number (VIN). A relational database must have onl...
Object storage integration SQL Server 2022 (16.x) introduces new object storage integration to the data platform, enabling you to integrate SQL Server with S3-compatible object storage, in addition to Azure Storage. The first is backup to URL and the second is Data Lake Virtualization.Data Lake...
(15.x) introduces a new feature that is part of theIn-Memory Databasefeature family, Memory-optimized TempDB metadata, which effectively removes this bottleneck and unlocks a new level of scalability fortempdbheavy workloads. In SQL Server 2019 (15.x), the system tables involved in managing ...
(15.x) introduces a new feature that is part of theIn-Memory Databasefeature family, Memory-optimized TempDB metadata, which effectively removes this bottleneck and unlocks a new level of scalability fortempdbheavy workloads. In SQL Server 2019 (15.x), the system tables involved in managing ...
(15.x) introduces a new feature that is part of theIn-Memory Databasefeature family, Memory-optimized TempDB metadata, which effectively removes this bottleneck and unlocks a new level of scalability fortempdbheavy workloads. In SQL Server 2019 (15.x), the system tables involved in managing ...
Let’s look at another GUID function available in SQL Server – NEWSEQUENTIALID. This function creates a GUID that is greater than any GUID previously created by this function on the same machine since Windows started. This mechanism of generating continuously higher values is a great fit when GU...
In order to be a primary key, several conditions must hold true: The columns defining the primary key are unique. Each column may contain duplicate values; however, the combination of column values is unique. No value within the primary key columns is NULL. I would also extend this to incl...
For information about availability groups on Linux, see Availability groups for SQL Server on Linux.In an HA configuration, a cluster role is created for every availability group that you create. The WSFC cluster monitors this role to evaluate the health of the primary replica. The quorum for ...
For information about availability groups on Linux, see Availability groups for SQL Server on Linux.In an HA configuration, a cluster role is created for every availability group that you create. The WSFC cluster monitors this role to evaluate the health of the primary replica. The quorum for ...