Category SQL Server

September 16, 2020 Posted in Blogs, Data Migration, Database, GIS, Oracle, Spatial, SQL Server

I spent many years on spatial data modeling and migration on ESRI ArcGIS and ArcSDE, served nature resources sector. Spatial data migration is common when we get involved in map-related applications.

I worked on a project which requested spatial data migration from Oracle to SQL Server. I would like to give you a quick walk-through on how it can be done correctly.

First, let’s introduce some basic concepts:

• WKT & WKB: Well-known Text & Well-known Binary, text markup language defined by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), supported by Oracle 9i+, MS SQL Server 2008 R2+, PostgreSQL PostGIS M2, etc.
• Geometry & Geography: Geometry: Euclidean (flat) coordinate system; Geography: Round-earth coordinate system.
• Spatial Data Types: consist of simple types and collection types as illustr...

August 31, 2019 Posted in Blogs, ECM, ESX, IT Infrastructure, Performance, SQL Server

One of my banking clients has a large SQL Server farm which hosts support data. Another client uses SharePoint as ECM (Enterprise Content Management) system which relies on underneath SQL Server farm. Both are dependent on the infrastructure operating 24*7*365, both have strong needs to monitor the performance of SQL Server farm.

Let’s see how to build performance monitoring layers for a SQL Server farm. Though this might not be the best approach, it can be a great reference based on technical implementation feasibility under existing IT environment.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Let’s assume that we utilize NetApp as storage, VMware ESXi (vs. Hyper-V) as bare-metal OS. The guest OS is Windows Servers on which SQL Server instances run. As illustrated, scale-out (vs...