Testing your PowerShell scripts is just as important as testing any code. In this article, Robert Cain demonstrates how to use the testing tool, Pester, to perform unit, integration, and acceptance testing.
2018-09-20
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Site-wide or region-wide disasters, while undoubtedly more impactful, happen considerably less frequently than downtime resulting from scheduled maintenance events or isolated hardware and software faults. This article provides an overview of the high availability features of Azure SQL Database that mitigate risks affecting services within an individual Azure datacenter, rather than an entire Azure region.
2018-09-18
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In this tip we look at different examples of how to use the LIKE operator to get the correct results when strings contain wildcard characters. We will also look a function to make this easier to do.
2018-09-17
4,254 reads
When Clippy suggests an index with only one key, look closer.
2018-09-14
2,975 reads
As running SQL Server on Linux becomes more common, DBAs must learn and become comfortable with the Linux OS. In this article, Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman demonstrates how to create a SQL Server instance running in Linux via a Docker container.
2018-09-13
3,067 reads
This article looks at how Microsoft implemented the Python language support into SQL Server and how it can be used.
2018-09-12
2,982 reads
There are times when you might need to look at your SQL Server data in hexadecimal format. Occasionally some string data will contain unprintable characters, which can cause downstream problems, if not detected and removed. Read on to learn how to display and remove unprintable hexadecimal characters from SQL Server data.
2018-09-11
2,713 reads
Kerberos authentication is a topic that many database administrators avoid. It’s really not that difficult to understand, but it’s also easy to get wrong. In this article, Kathi Kellenberger talks about what you need to know about configuring Kerberos for SSRS and SQL Server databases but were too shy to ask.
2018-09-10
3,437 reads
Erik Darling dusts off his favorite archival-quality bloggers and books.
2018-09-07
2,958 reads
Everyone knows how important code testing is, and to be thorough, you must automate testing. This includes scripts such as those written in PowerShell as well. In this article, Robert Cain introduces Pester, a tool for testing PowerShell code.
2018-09-06
2,813 reads
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