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Month: January 2019

Miscellany On Java In SQL Server

Published 2019-01-02 by Kevin Feasel

Niels Berglund continues a series on SQL Server 2019 and Java support:

This post is the fourth post where I look at the Java extension in SQL Server, i.e. the ability to execute Java code from inside SQL Server. The previous three posts are:
SQL Server 2019 Extensibility Framework & Java – Hello World: We looked at installing and enabling the Java extension, as well as some very basic Java code.
SQL Server 2019 Extensibility Framework & Java – Passing Data: In this post, we discussed what is required to pass data back and forth between SQL Server and Java.
SQL Server 2019 Extensibility Framework & Java – Null Values: This, the Null Values, post is a follow up to the Passing Data post, and we look at how to handle null values in data passed to Java.
This fourth post acts as a “roundup” of miscellaneous “stuff” I did not cover in the three previous posts

If you haven’t seen the first three, check them out too.

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The State Of Database Scoped Configurations

Published 2019-01-02 by Kevin Feasel

Niko Neugebauer takes us through the current state of Database Scoped Configurations in SQL Server:

I have already blogged about the first version of the Database Scoped Configurations for SQL Server 2016, with 4 visible optionsplus the procedure cache cleaning option, but we have followed in SQL Server 2017 with 5 (listed) & 9 (in practice – DISABLE_INTERLEAVED_EXECUTION_TVF, DISABLE_BATCH_MODE_ADAPTIVE_JOINS, BATCH_MODE_MEMORY_GRANT_FEEDBACK, BATCH_MODE_ADAPTIVE_JOINS are visible and functioning), and in just another year we have received a huge upgrade to the currently available 21 for SQL Server 2019.

It seems like this is a common route the SQL Server teams are going down, and it makes sense: your settings for Mega-DB probably shouldn’t be the same as for the tiny database in the corner. Oh, and that whole Azure SQL Database thing.

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Querying SSISDB For Errors

Published 2019-01-02 by Kevin Feasel

Kevin Hill shows us two ways to get at error messages in Integration Services packages running in the SSIS Catalog:

My client makes extensive use of SSIS and deploys the packages to the Integration Services Catalog (ISC), and runs them via hundreds of jobs.
When one of the jobs fail, I have to go get the details.
Job History doesn’t have it.

I’d recommend the query route if you have to do this more than once or twice.

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Building A Kubernetes Cluster With Kubespray

Published 2019-01-02 by Kevin Feasel

Chris Adkin continues a series on Kubernetes clusters:

In essence Kubespray is a bunch of Ansible playbooks; yaml file that specify what actions should take place against one or more machines specified in a hosts.ini file, this resides in what is known as an inventory. Of all the infrastructure as code tools available at the time of writing, Ansible is the most popular and has the greatest traction. Examples of playbooks produced by Microsoft can be found on GitHub for automating tasks in Azure and deploying SQL Server availability groups on Linux. The good news for anyone into PowerShell is that PowerShell modules can be installed via Ansible and PowerShell commands can be executed via Ansible. Also, there are people already using PowerShell desired state configuration with Ansible. Ansible’s popularity is down to the facts it is easy to pick up and agent-less because it relies on ssh, hence why one of the steps in this post includes the creation of keys for ssh. This free tutorial is highly recommended for anyone wishing to pick up Ansible.

Click through for a step-by-step tutorial.

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Creating An Azure Storage Account

Published 2019-01-02 by Kevin Feasel

John Morehouse walks us through setting up an Azure Storage Account through the Azure Portal:

Azure offers a lot of features that enable IT professionals to really enhance their environment.  One feature that I really like about Azure is storage accounts.  Since disk is relatively cheap, this continues to hold true in the cloud.  For less than $100 per month, you could get up to 5TB of storage including redundancy to another Azure region.

Read on to learn how to set up one of these.

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Diving Into OPTION(RECOMPILE)

Published 2019-01-02 by Kevin Feasel

Arthur Daniels explains some of the nuance behind OPTION(RECOMPILE) on T-SQL statements:

SQL Server will compile an execution plan specifically for the statement that the query hint is on. There’s some benefits, like something called “constant folding.” To us, that just means that the execution plan might be better than a normal execution plan compiled for the current statement.
It also means that the statement itself won’t be vulnerable to parameter sniffing from other queries in cache. In fact, the statement with option recompile won’t be stored in cache.

Click through for a couple of demos as well as a discussion of positives and negatives regarding its use.

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