Kevin3NF

Kevin Hill is a career SQL Server DBA living in Dallas, TX. His specialities include HA/DR, Best Practice configuration, Performance tuning and teaching new and accidental DBAs
  • Interests: Cycling, family, sci-fi, DBA stuff

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TIL: Backup-DbaDatabase

(This post comes from one of our Junior DBAs – @SQLDork) I’m learning how to use dbatools. Today’s command: Backup-DbaDatabase I’m using the 64-bit PowerShell ISE (running as administrator),...

2021-04-26 (first published: )

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2020 Year In Review

TL;DR – It was great and not great I think we can all pretty much agree that in some regards 2020 was horrible, globally. So lets move on… Good...

2021-01-01

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Use a slicer to filter a visual based upon a measure in Power BI

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Have you ever wanted to filter a visual by selecting a range of values...

Deleting Stale Local Database Git Branches with SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger

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I wrote a post recently about pruning branches in git. That’s part of the...

Microsoft Fabric shortcuts

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I talked about Microsoft Fabric shortcuts in my blog post Microsoft Fabric – the...

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SSIS upgrade

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Question of the Day

Post Restore Tasks for the Resource Database

I backup the Resource database from my SQL Server 2022 instance. I then install CUs 1, 2, 3, and 4. I have an issue and need to restore my Resource database from backup. Is there anything I need to do after restoring this database?

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