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...
The new secondary database is in the RESTORING state until it's joined to the availability group. For more information, see Start Data Movement on an Always On Secondary Database (SQL Server).Joining places the secondary database into the ONLINE state and initiates...
Concurrent PFS updates Page Free Space (PFS) pages are special pages within a database file that SQL Server uses to help locate free space when it allocates space for an object. Page latch contention on PFS pages is commonly associated with TempDB, but it can also occur on user databases ...
concurrent object allocation threads. This improvement changes the way that concurrency is managed with PFS updates so that they can be updated under a shared latch, rather than an exclusive latch. This behavior is on by default in all databases (includingtempdb) starting with SQL Server 2019 (...
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 ...
An availability database is sometimes called adatabase replicain Transact-SQL, PowerShell, and SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) names. For example, the term "database replica" is used in the names of the Always On dynamic management views that return information about availability databases:sy...
An availability database is sometimes called adatabase replicain Transact-SQL, PowerShell, and SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) names. For example, the term "database replica" is used in the names of the Always On dynamic management views that return information about availability databases:sy...
SQL is standardized in such a way by asking a specific questions of a database object, in the form of a structured query that a database knows how to respond to. SQL uses a command interpreter to parse the SQL. Because it’s such a powerful way of thinking about the data, SQL has ...
There are 3 new security features introduces in SQL Server 2016. Always Encrypted With Always Encrypted, the data is, well… always encrypted. The encryption takes place on the client side when it is written, and requires a special driver and an encryption key in order to be able to read ...