Michael J Swart posted a SQL query on his blog that produced a rendition of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, in the spatial results tab of SQL Server Management Studio when executed. But, when everyone rushed over in anxious anticipation, some folks could execute the query but couldn't see the picture on their 64-bit editions. Here's […]
Bob Beauchemin
SQL Server Blog
Trouble seeing “Birth of Venus” image in the SSMS spatial results tab?
Posted on: February 28, 2010 8:28 pm
Transactions, isolation, and SQL Azure
Posted on: February 11, 2010 3:46 pm
I was trundling through my SQL Azure database today, looking for interesting behaviors. Found one. A "select * from sys.databases" reveals that both "snapshot_isolation_state" and "is_read_committed_snapshot_on" return 1 (on) for all databases. Because ALTER DATABASE isn't supported, these cannot be changed. So READ COMMITTED SNAPSHOT is the default transaction isolation level, which may come as […]
A SQL Server 2008 R2 change for Service Broker
Posted on: February 5, 2010 9:43 pm
There's another change to the SQL Server database engine in SQL Server 2008 R2. This concerns poison-message handling behavior in Service Broker applications. Service broker's messaging is always transactional. A RECEIVE SQL statement is transactional and can be combined with other database operations as part of a transaction. For example, you can code a RECEIVE […]
Filestreams, Remote Blob Storage, and SQL Server 2008 R2
Posted on: February 4, 2010 12:25 pm
As long as I'm blogging about filestreams… Folks always want to know if the filestream information can be stored on a remote share. They look kind of disappointed when they hear that the filestream filegroup must exist on a local (to the SQL Server instance) drive. However… (isn't there always a however?) For SQL Server […]
Filestreams, transactions and SQL Server 2008 R2
Posted on: February 4, 2010 11:47 am
I was under the impression that the database engine/programming model changes in SQL Server 2008 R2 were minimal and could be counted on one hand. Today I was running an old demo that I had, having to do with filestreams on the R2 Nov CTP. Usually I run this one line-by-line, but I was in […]
