Virtual log file growth In previous versions of SQL Server, if the next growth is more than 1/8 of the current log size, and the growth is less than 64 MB, four VLFs were created. In SQL Server 2022 (16.x), this behavior is slightly different. Only one VLF is created if the grow...
Always Encrypted: When enabled, only the application that has the encryption key can access the encrypted sensitive data in the SQL Server 2016 database. The key is never passed to SQL Server. Dynamic Data Masking: If specified in the table definition, masked data is hidden from most users,...
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...
As part of the schema synchronization procedure performed when starting, an SQL node now compares all databases on the cluster's data nodes with those in its own data dictionary, and if any of these is found to be missing from the SQL node's data dictionary, the SQL Node installs it loc...
(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 ...
The ODBC Source and Destination components have been updated to provide full compatibility with SQL Server 2016. There is no new functionality and there are no changes in behavior. Explicit support for Excel 2016 data sources The Excel Connection Manager, the Excel Source, and the Excel Destination...
Native compilation is turned on and off by a separate initialization parameter,PLSQL_CODE_TYPE, rather than being one of several options in thePLSQL_COMPILER_FLAGSparameter, which is now deprecated. See Also: "Compiling PL/SQL Code for Native Execution" ...
This robust developer toolkit is for designing, developing, and interoperating with Microsoft Fabric using frontend SDKs and backend REST APIs. November 2024 Mirroring for Azure SQL Database GA With Azure SQL Database mirroring in Fabric, you can easily replicate data from Azure SQL Database into...
• Is this a Production server? Yes /No. • Was the server dropped by itself? Or did you attempt to drop the resource group which resulted in force drop of the server? • Approximate date and time that the server was dropped?
Polybase is a new feature with SQL 2016 that allows you to query external Hadoop data and data in Azure Blob Storage. It has been around for a little while in the Analytics Platform System appliance as a feature in Parallel Data Warehouse, but it now can be installed on SQL Server 2016....