Implemented Transactional Replication, Log shipping for database high availability. To analyze long running slow queries and tune the same to optimize application and system performance. Migrated SQL server 2000 databases into SQL server 2005 and 20 R2 databases by In-place upgrade and Side-by-Side migration. Implemented the new SQL Server 2008 concepts like Policy Based Management, Central management servers, Transparent Data Encryption, Table and Page level compression and Resource Governor. Used native tools like DATA BASE TUNING ADVISOR, PROFILER and ACTIVITY MONITOR for performance analysis. Applied Patches and Service packs to update different versions of MS SQL SERVER.

First, the old limit of four read-only replicas has been increased to eight. By having more read-only replicas of your database, you can improve availability while shifting read-intensive workloads off to those replicas. For instance, you might have your master database running a standard OLTP workload, with read-only replicas handling tasks like reporting and backup. Reports can be designed using recent versions of Microsoft Visual Studio (Visual Studio.NET 2003, 2005, and 2008) with Business Intelligence Development Studio, installed or with the included Report Builder. Once created, RDL files can be rendered in a variety of formats, including Excel, PDF, CSV, XML, BMP, EMF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF, and HTML Web Archive. Also, service broker supports security features like network authentication , integrity checking, and message encryption.

SQL Server 2014 Security Enhancements

We are excited to discuss how implementing new features, can help benefit your SQL Server environment. Regularly installed service packs and hot fixes for both clustered and standalone environment.

Grants Connect permission for users on Databases that may be created in future. Now SQL Server backup data can be encrypted during the backup creation with several new encryption algorithms like AES 128, AES 192, AES 256 and 3DES.

AlwaysOn Enhancements

We’ve had some “fun” times together but I’m now ready to move on….. I prefer that they keep it a bit longer as I am more familiar with it than AGs; especially for those who are not on 2012 yet. Someone mentioned deprecated features, can’t be too long before Mirroring sql server 2014 new features for dba is removed. If not, start there first – memory can be used for more than just caching clean pages. Many of our favorite new Windows Server 2012 R2 features are in Hyper-V. Check them out in the 10 best new features of Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V.

• Therefore, controlling the cost of databases and related hardware resources and improving and expanding them as necessary have become increasingly important.
• SQL Server 2016 was developed as part of Microsoft’s “mobile-first, cloud-first” technology strategy.
• The result of this phase will be a physical design specification that will be used to build and deploy your database solution.
• Furthermore, you can analyze these data accordingly; clean, transform, shape or merge and combine.
• TDS is an application layer protocol, used to transfer data between a database server and a client.

SQL Server Management Studio replaces Enterprise Manager as the primary management interface for Microsoft SQL Server since SQL Server 2005. A version of SQL Server Management Studio is also available for SQL Server Express Edition, for which it is known as SQL Server Management Studio Express . Microsoft Visual Studio includes native support for data programming with Microsoft SQL Server. It can be used to write and debug code to be executed by SQL CLR. It also includes a data designer that can be used to graphically create, view or edit database schemas. SSMS 2008 onwards, provides intellisense for SQL queries as well. For cross-instance applications, Service Broker communicates over TCP/IP and allows the different components to be synchronized, via exchange of messages. The Service Broker, which runs as a part of the database engine, provides a reliable messaging and message queuing platform for SQL Server applications.