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Day: September 10, 2018

SQL Server On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Published 2018-09-10 by Kevin Feasel

Avanish Panchal shows how to get SQL Server on Linux running on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:

April 26th, 2018 Ubuntu 18.04 released. A 7th long-term support release of the world’s most popular OSOS available in Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core versions. Tried quite a bit to install SQL Server 2017 on 18.04, but couldn’t get luck. Investigated quite a bit and came across few reasons. Lot of workaround are mentioned across web, however wondering easiest and simplest way, always.

Potential reason till SQL Server for Linux 2017 CU9 package had dependencies on OPENSSL version(1.0.0) but Ubuntu 18.04 LTS comes with OpenSSL 1.1. Microsoft has update the SQL Server 2017 installation package so it can use libssl1.0.0 pkg. However still found issue while installing today (08-Sep-2018). Realised Microsoft SQL Server on Linux 2017 CU10 was updated but still few changes are required at OS level i.e. Ubuntu 18.04.

Read on for screen shots showing how to fix the problem.

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The Value Of Auto-Created Statistics

Published 2018-09-10 by Kevin Feasel

Brent Ozar is here to praise statistics auto-creation:

Let me rephrase: before you even start playing around with statistics, make sure you haven’t taken away SQL Server’s ability to do this for you.

I like to make fun of a lot of SQL Server’s built-in “auto-tuning” capabilities that do a pretty terrible job. Cost Threshold for Parallelism of 5? MAXDOP 0? Missing index hints that include every column in the table? Oooookeydokey.

But there are some things that SQL Server has been taking care of for years, and automatically creating statistics is one of ’em.

There are edge cases where statistics auto-creation isn’t the best thing, but for the great majority of cases, it is a big positive.

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Testing AG Read-Only Routing

Published 2018-09-10 by Kevin Feasel

Jess Pomfret shows us how we can use dbatools to test Availability Group read-only routing:

The other part I needed to set up was read-only routing, this enables SQL Server to reroute those read only connections to the appropriate replica.  You can also list the read only replicas by priority if you have multiple available or you can group them to enable load-balancing.

Although this seems to be setup correctly so that connections that specify their application intent of read only will be routed to the secondary node I wanted to prove it.

Read on to see how Jess is able to prove it.

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