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Notes from the SQL Server Cloud Infrastructure team.
MSA accounts used with SQL
Here's a note from Anne Labbe, a premier field engineer in Charlotte who's been looking into managed...
Date: 02/19/2014
Manage SQL Server Connectivity through Windows Azure Virtual Machines Remote PowerShell
Manage SQL Server Connectivity through Windows Azure Virtual Machines Remote PowerShell Blog This...
Date: 06/25/2013
SQL Server 2014 CTP1 now available for download as well as in Windows Azure Image Gallery
Exciting news - At TechEd Europe 2013 keynote today, we announced that SQL Server 2014 CTP1 is now...
Date: 06/25/2013
SQL Server in Windows Azure Infrastructure Services: Performance Guidance Whitepaper and other TechEd NA 2013 updates
Greetings, We are excited to announce the release of our new whitepaper, Performance Guidance for...
Date: 06/03/2013
Enhancements to SQL Server Backup to Cloud in SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU4
Cumulative Update 4 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 includes enhancements to improve the SQL...
Date: 05/31/2013
SQL Server in Windows Azure Infrastructure Services – Updated Documentation and Best Practices for GA, Upcoming Blogs
It’s been just over a week since Windows Azure announced the GA of Infrastructure Services,...
Date: 04/24/2013
SQL Server Backup to Cloud – Managing Interrupted backups
Writer: Karthika Raman Technical Reviewers: Guy Bowerman, Pat Schaefer, Andrew Cherry On January 24,...
Date: 03/12/2013
When will my SQL Server Evaluation Edition expire?
The SQL Server Evaluation Edition is a great way to get a fully functional and free instance of SQL...
Date: 02/17/2013
Backup and Restore to Cloud Simplified in SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU2
SQL Server 2012 SP1 Cumulative Update 2 includes new functionality that simplifies the backup and...
Date: 01/24/2013
SQLOS and Cloud Infrastructure sessions at PASS Summit 2012
The SQL Pass Summit 2012, the largest yet, is in full swing. Here's a summary of the sessions this...
Date: 11/07/2012
Resource Governor in SQL Server 2012 technical article published
The SQL Server Technical article entitled Resource Governor in SQL Server 2012 has just been...
Date: 07/30/2012
Memory Manager Configuration changes in SQL Server 2012
Continuing from yesterday's article about Memory Manager surface area changes in SQL Server 2012,...
Date: 07/12/2012
Memory Manager surface area changes in SQL Server 2012
There were various changes to memory related DMVs, DBCC memory status, and Perfmon counters in SQL...
Date: 07/11/2012
SQL Server 2012 Memory Manager KB articles
Since the release of SQL Server 2012 with a redesigned memory manager, a steady stream of KB...
Date: 06/20/2012
Lock Pages in Memory - not deprecated in Denali
Please note an error in the SQL 2012 documentation for Lock Pages in Memory which indicates that...
Date: 03/22/2012
When was sys.dm_os_wait_stats last cleared?
The sys.dm_os_wait_stats DMV provides essential metrics for diagnosing SQL Server performance...
Date: 11/12/2011
New SQLOS features in SQL Server 2012
Here's a quick summary of SQLOS feature enhancements going into SQL Server 2012. Most of these are...
Date: 11/10/2011
SQL Server with Hyper-V Dynamic Memory - Best Practices white paper
A new Microsoft white paper has been published entitled Running SQL Server with Hyper-V Dynamic...
Date: 08/02/2011
SQL Server Virtualization, Consolidation and Private Cloud Resources
We've been seeing a lot of interest in optimizing SQL Server for virtualization private cloud...
Date: 06/08/2011
More on DMV changes in SQL 2008 R2 SP1
Following our last post by Mehmet about new support and troubleshooting DMV’s, here are...
Date: 05/11/2011
New DMVs in Denali
This article is about some of the new DMV’s that are newly added to next version of SQL...
Date: 05/05/2011
SQL Server and Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Part 3
In parts 1 and 2 of this series we looked at the basics of Hyper-V Dynamic Memory and SQL Server...
Date: 03/09/2011
SQL Server and Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Part 2
Part 1 of this series was an introduction and overview of Hyper-V Dynamic Memory. This part looks at...
Date: 02/27/2011
SQL Server and Hyper-V Dynamic Memory - Part 1
SQL and Dynamic Memory Blog Post Series Hyper-V Dynamic Memory is a new feature in Windows Server...
Date: 01/31/2011
What causes Multi-Page allocations?
Writing about changes in the Denali Memory Manager In his last post Rusi mentioned: " In previous...
Date: 01/26/2011
SQL Server Memory Manager Changes in Denali
The next version of SQL Server will contain significant changes to the memory manager component. The...
Date: 01/04/2011
Is this real? The Metaphysics of Hardware Virtualization
One of the philosophical principles of hardware virtualization is that the hardware should appear...
Date: 10/30/2010
Mapping Virtual Address Space in T-SQL
The Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) introduced in SQL Server 2005 provide a comprehensive window...
Date: 10/24/2010
New SQL Server Virtualization white paper published
A new white paper has been published on TechNet today: Planning, Implementing and Supporting SQL...
Date: 07/30/2010
Solid State Memory and TPC-E benchmarks
Violin Memory have published an interesting TPC-E benchmark which illustrates the kind of cost and...
Date: 06/30/2010
SQLOS Resources
Hello, I recently joined the SQLOS team as a program manager. As it has been a year or so since the...
Date: 06/23/2010
Using XEVENT in SQL Server
Xevent related system catalog views and DMVs Some one asked me how to use xevent. There are lot of...
Date: 06/04/2009
How to RPC to transfer data from native c++ to managed object
My Experience on using RPC in mixed mode assembly I was assigned a project which use RPC cross...
Date: 06/04/2009
Extended Event related sytem catalog views and DMVs
We add extended event (short for XEVENT) to SQL Server 2008. Along with this feature, we provide a...
Date: 06/10/2008
The basics of basics
[Copied over from my original blog https://ssinghal.spaces.live.com to have everything under one...
Date: 04/18/2007
Sql Server Memory 101
[Copied over from my original blog https://ssinghal.spaces.live.com to have everything under one...
Date: 04/18/2007
Hello World!
We work in Microsoft Sql Server team for one of the core components called SQLOS. Thats the place...
Date: 04/13/2007