Mustafa EL-Masry SQL Server 2016

Concept and basics of Temporal tables in SQL Server 2016


In this article I’ll cover all aspects of a new SQL Server 2016 feature, Temporal Tables (System-Versioned), including:

  • Introduction
  • What is a temporal table?
  • Why Temporal table?
  • How does temporal table work?
  • Consideration and limitation
  • Temporal tables vs CDC
  • Creation and configuration
  • Clean up and removal
  • References

Introduction

AS we know, Microsoft released SQL Server 2016 RTM version (13.00.1601.5) and in November of 2016 updated it by the latest CU (Security Bulletin MS16-136 (CU) KB #3194717) (13.0.2186.0) you can check this update from here.

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Andrew Jackson SQL Server 2016

SQL Server 2016 Row Level Security and its Implementation


Security has been always one the main concern by MS SQL Server. All the releases of SQL Server have some new security feature or enhancement of an existing feature. Similarly, the latest edition of SQL Server 2016 has many security features such as Always Encrypted, enhancement of Transparent Data Encryption, Dynamic Data Masking, and Row-Level Security are added.

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devmosman SQL Server 2016

SQL SERVER 2016 Always Encrypted


It is the new way of Data encryption introduced with SQL Server 2016 used for encrypting the sensitive date encrypted at the application layer via ADO.NET. This means you can encrypt your confidential data with the yours.NET application before the data being sent across the network to SQL Server.

Column master key:

The Column Master Key is stored on an application machine, in an external key store. This key used for protecting the column encryption key and SQL Server doesn’t have any access to this core directly

Column Encryption Key:

But this one is stored in SQL Server and it used for encrypting/decrypt the Always Encrypted column at this time the scenario of the encryption will be the first ADO.NET has decrypted the Column Encryption Key, using the Column Master Key then SQL Server use Encryption Key for encrypting/decrypt the Always Encrypted column.

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Technical Demo:

  • Expand your DB under security you will find “Always Encrypted Keys “
  • Right click create new column master key

USE [SQL2016DEMO]
CREATE COLUMN MASTER KEY [Demo_Always_Encrypted_CMK]
WITH
(
KEY_STORE_PROVIDER_NAME = N’MSSQL_CERTIFICATE_STORE’,
KEY_PATH = N’CurrentUser/My/09D607EDCEC14A9E009FC59B67E7F423DBEE9C9E’
)

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Mohit SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2016

Changing @@SERVERNAME causes SQL Server Backups to Fail for AlwaysOn Availability Group


One of customers changed the value returned from @@SERVERNAME.  SQL Server works no problem, however an unexpected behavior appeared.  Changing the value for @@SERVERNAME, caused the backups to fail.

Looking at the maintenance jobs, found all jobs completed successfully and without issues.  However, upon looking at the database’s statics it states no backups completed.

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Because the database in question is part of AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG); SQL Server executes sys.fn_hadr_backup_is_preferred_replica to determine if the backup should take place on the current node.  However, it returns value of 0 for all databases, if the preferred replica is set.  Because, the script makes a check that is running on the server that is preferred.  It does this by comparing the value to @@SERVERNAME to value of replica_server_name in sys.availability_replicas.  Because value will never match, it skips the database on both primary and secondary replica.

I have created a Microsoft Connect article (link); asking this little bit of information to be added to Books Online article (link).  There was a request submitted by Ola Hallengren (Blog | Twitter), which was closed as Won’t Fix (link).   Please vote!

This post is cross posted on my SQLCAN Blog, MSDN Blog, and SQL server Consultation blog.

Mustafa EL-Masry SQL Server 2016

SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 3.1 is available


Configurations for all Microsoft SQL Server 2016 followers and for the guys are interested to know more and more about this new technology Microsoft released version no 3.1 CTP from SQL Server 2016 and it released new improvement in this version (In-Memory OLTP) i will explain it later in detail but now for more information and for downloading this new version you can check it from Here

Also to cover all the new updates in SQL Server 2016 you can check it from Here

To know More about new feature in SQL Server 2016 you can check it from HERE

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