Category: SQL Server 2014

Cloud, google, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2016, Uncategorized

SQL Server on GCP

Posted on by lynnlangit

I recently tried out running SQL Server 2016 on a Google Cloud Platform Windows-based Virtual Machine (GCE – Google Compute Engine Service).

This is a quick way to try out new features of the latest version of SQL Server.  In this case, I wanted to test out the R (language)-in database services.

Although you can certainly ‘click’ in the GCP console to start an instance of SQL Server on GCE,  you may want to script activity (for use with the Google gcloud tool).  To that end, I created a simple script to do this.  Also I added a script to enable and test the R-in database feature.  Here’s a link to my GitHub Repo.

What do you think?  Interested to try this out?  Let me know how it goes for you.

 

#happyExploring

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Azure, Cloud, Microsoft, SQL Server 2014

First Look – SQL Server 2014 RTM on Windows Azure

Posted on by lynnlangit

It’s a SQL Server kind of day.  First, congratulations to the team at Microsoft for releasing SQL Server 2014.  Also, thanks again to Microsoft to awarding me their MVP award for my SQL Server community education activities for the second year in a row.

As promised, the Azure team made a set of Azure Virtual Machine images with SQL Server 2014 RTM available today as well.
SQL Server 2014 RTM images on Windows Azure

I took the standard edition out for a spin and recorded the results in a short screencast (embedded below) – enjoy!

 

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