SQLServer Archives - Daniel Glenn

SQL Saturday Memphis 2018

Daniel — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:56:27 +0000

On October 6, 2018, I will be speaking in Memphis, Tennessee at the SQL Saturday event. The day is filled with sessions covering Azure, Python, SQL Server (of course), SQL on Linux, Power BI, and my session: Using Your On-prem Data in a Cloud World. In my session, we will discuss the benefits of using Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, and Power BI, how those benefits translate to being on-prem, and how we can use the data in Office 365 as well. We will setup a data gateway and walk through using it to connect to data wherever it resides! Click here for more details for the #SQLSatMemphis event, including registration and the schedule. [UPDATE] I had a great time connecting and learning in Memphis. The volunteer organizers and staff did an excellent job! The attendees to my session were fun and engaged – thank you all for attending! @DanielGlenn awesome presentation. I like the demo of mobile data flowing through the power apps pic.twitter.com/KhUaijfZjs — Judy (@jeytechconsult) October 6, 2018 Here are my slides: Using Your On-prem Data in a Cloud World SQL Saturday Memphis 2018

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SQL Saturday Atlanta BI Edition 2018

Daniel — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 17:08:00 +0000

Please join me on September 22, 2018 in Atlanta Georgia for another SQL Saturday event – this time a business intelligence edition! The day will be filled with sessions covering Power BI, Azure BI, SSIS, and my session: Using Your On-prem Data in a Cloud World. In my session, we will discuss the benefits of using Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, and Power BI, how those benefits translate to being on-prem, and how we can use the data in Office 365 as well. We will setup a data gateway and walk through using it to connect to data wherever it resides! Click here for more details for the #SQLSatATLBI event, including registration and the schedule. [UPDATE] The slides for #SQLSatATLBI: Using Your On-prem Data in a Cloud World Atlanta BI 2018

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SQL User Group – November 20th 2015

Daniel — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 23:45:00 +0000

[UPDATE] Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting. I hope you enjoyed your time and learned something! The slides can be found here: Nashville SQL Server User Group 11/20/2015 Congrats to Nick for winning the swag! @DanielGlenn @nashsql SQL config for Sharepoint. pic.twitter.com/6vKa2b48gs — Nick Koch (@KochaKola) November 20, 2015 ———————————————————————————————————————- I am honored to be asked to speak at the November 20th Nashville SQL Server User Group. The meeting starts at 12 noon and I will be presenting “Tuning SQL Server for SharePoint”. I will covering the best practices for SQL Server when it is used for SharePoint as well as doing a live SharePoint Server 2016 Technical Preview install. More information can be found on the SQL Server User Group website (nashville.sqlpass.org), including the registration link! I will have the recap and slide deck attached to this post after the meeting.

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SharePoint 2016 and Maximum Degree Of Parallelism (MAXDOP)

Daniel — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:00:10 +0000

I was a speaker at five SQL Saturdays this year and at each one of them I was asked why SharePoint requires the SQL Server Maximum Degree Of Parallelism setting to be set equal to 1. After explaining the reason, I would get a blank stare and then a response like “so SharePoint is inefficient and is hard-coded to look for MAXDOP=1?” Knowing that I would be asked the same question again at the next SQL Saturday, in late July I sent out a tweet trying to get an answer to the question: “Will SharePoint Server 2016 require MAXDOP to be equal to 1?” The only response I received was from Dan Usher, who's response you can see below – sarcasm included 🙂 @DanielGlenn Hmmm… now you're just being silly. @williambaer @mkashman @jthake — Dan Usher (@binarybrewery) July 24, 2015 So, with the release of SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview, I was very interested in performing an install with MAXDOP set to something other 1.With SharePoint 2013, if MAXDOP did not equal 1, the install failed when creating the configuration database and would show an error (see information about permissions at the end of this post). So with my first install of SharePoint 2016, I set MAXDOP equal to 5 in SQL Server and ran the install. The install completed successfully…to my surprise. I really thought I would see an error similar to the one above. So, for a moment, I thought I might have a new story to tell my DBA friends: “SharePoint Server 2016 doesn't require MAXDOP=1!” But, that moment quickly went away and I remembered why the error message appeared in a SharePoint 2013 install – the install user did not have sufficient rights within SQL Server to change the Maximum Degree Of Parallelism setting. SharePoint 2013 actually does attempt to change MAXDOP to 1, but if you have SQL and SharePoint configured properly, your SharePoint account will not have rights to make changes to SQL system settings. For my first install test, I was using a service account that did have administrative rights on SQL as well. I looked at the setting in SQL and SharePoint 2016 did change the Maximum Degree Of Parallelism setting to 1. So, the story is, as of now anyway (we are dealing with Preview software), SharePoint Server 2016 requires MAXDOP=1.

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