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Day: November 21, 2024

SQL ConstantCare Population Report for Fall 2024

Published 2024-11-21 by Kevin Feasel

Brent Ozar announces the numbers:

Every quarter, we publish adoption rate data showing how quickly people are adopting new versions of SQL Server. Today it’s time for the fall 2024 version of our SQL ConstantCare® population report.

SQL Server 2019 is still the king of the hill with almost 3X more market share than any other version!

Here’s how adoption is trending over time, with the most recent data at the right:

Every time I do this, I always lay in the caveat that this is a specific example of a specific customer base for a specific product and so there will be differences from the broader population of SQL Server/Azure SQL installations. But every time, I also say that this is still a useful indicator to review over time.

Given that Microsoft has announced SQL Server 2025, my guess is that 2022’s adoption curve will look a lot like 2017’s, where it never eclipses the prior version (2016 or 2019). Instead, companies will likely move directly to 2025 from 2019.

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A Review of Stellar Repair for MSSQL

Published 2024-11-21 by Kevin Feasel

Mika Sutinen shares a product review:

Stellar Repair for MS SQL is a tool that greatly simplifies one of all time most dreaded tasks of DBAs and DBREs. Recovering a database that has, for one reason or another, become corrupt.

In this post, I go through one of the more common types of database corruption scenarios, and using Stellar Repair for MS SQL to get the database back up and running.

Click through for the review.

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Custom Fonts in Power BI Reports

Published 2024-11-21 by Kevin Feasel

Elena Drakulevska opens a can of worms:

You’re presenting an amazing Power BI report filled with insights, but it feels like something’s missing. The visuals are great, but the default font? Meh. It’s like wearing flip-flops to a black-tie party.

That’s where custom fonts in Power BI come in to elevate your report and add that personal touch. Fonts do more than look good—they set the tone, show off your brand, and make your reports more engaging and easier to read. In short, they help your reports stand out.

Read on to see how, as well as important reasons why you might not want to use them.

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Setting a Default Destination for Fabric Dataflows Gen2

Published 2024-11-21 by Kevin Feasel

Jon Voge wants to spend less time copying and pasting:

Ever had a Dataflow Gen2 in which you needed to map the output of several queries to the same Warehouse or Lakehouse? Takes a while to setup, right?

If you wish to add a Default Destination to your Dataflow, all you need to do is to create the Dataflow from inside your desired destination. This works for both Warehouses, Lakehouses and KQL Databases:

Click through for an example of how it works.

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Making a SQL Server Table Read-Only

Published 2024-11-21 by Kevin Feasel

Chad Callihan has no need to write:

There are situations when you need to set a database to read-only, but what do you do when you need a single table to be read-only? It’s not as straightforward as setting the entire database read-only, but it can still be done.

Let’s take a look at the steps necessary to set both a database and a single table to read-only.

Another option is to put the table into a filegroup that you make read-only, especially if this is a permanent change. That way, you can rebuild the table’s indexes with a fill factor of 100% and reduce the number of pages. In addition, you can back up that read-only filegroup separately from active filegroups and restore filegroups individually. Now, if your read-only filegroup is a large percentage of total data in the database, you don’t need to back it up nearly as frequently because the data isn’t changing.

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