Whether it’s in our personal lives or the professional one, we do have checklists for certain tasks. On the professional level, it can be purely technical like SQL Server...
2020-09-03
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If you own a database with encrypted modules but you don't have a decrypted version, this can be a horror story.
Learn how to get back the code of the encrypted modules using dbatools.
2020-08-18
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This was initial posted on SQL Server Central articles. As one of dbatools' first members, I've been using it for years and it's really my goto tool. This task...
2020-07-31
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Being able to get information and save it on a Excel as a report can be a common and tedious task. What if we could join dbatools and ImportExcel PorwerShell modules to accomplish this in a easier and fast way? We will see how to export roles and its' member and save that info on a multi spreadsheet Excel file with handy tables ready to be explored.
2020-06-30
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We have seen how we can export and save the results to a folder and commit them to a GIT repository on my last blog post Backup your SQL...
2020-06-22 (first published: 2020-06-04)
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Today I want to share how I’m keeping a copy of instances’ configurations using dbatools. Chrissy LeMaire (B | T) wrote about it before on the Simplifying disaster recovery...
2020-06-15 (first published: 2020-06-02)
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Continuing to share tips and tricks using dbatools like the Refresh databases that belongs to availability group using dbatools posted a few days ago, today I will share a...
2020-06-12 (first published: 2020-05-28)
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Just a quick post as may help any of you searching for this. Scenario Client wants to analyze most recent deadlocks that happened on a specific instance. They asked...
2020-06-09 (first published: 2020-05-25)
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This month’s (#127) T-SQL Tuesday is brought by Kenneth Fisher (B | T) and he asked about Non SQL Tips and tricks. As a Windows user I know there...
2020-06-09
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This month’s (#127) T-SQL Tuesday is brought by Kenneth Fisher (B | T) and he asked about Non SQL Tips and tricks. As a Windows user I know there...
2020-06-09
12 reads
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
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