Appearance: SQL Data Partners Podcast #161
Carlos Chacon (twitter) was kind enough to have me back on the SQL Data Partners Podcast to talk about my experiences with managing 8000 databases on a single instance...
2019-02-21
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Tidier PowerShell Scripts with Default Parameter Values
I was recently working on a PowerShell script to set up some new databases for my users and found myself writing the same things over and over again.
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2019-02-04
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Things I Wish I Knew When I Started
Way back in August, Matt Cushing (blog|twitter) was preparing to teach and asked for a list of “what do you wish you’d known when you started” items that he...
2019-01-21
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WordPress's Block Editor and the Publicize Feature
Like many folks using Wordpress, I post a tweet each time I publish a blog entry and that’s done automatically by Wordpress. In the Wordpress Classic Editor, there was...
2019-01-14
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A Monumental Migration to SQL Server 2016 - Part 2
In my previous post, I outlined the preparations we undertook to migrate a large SQL Server 2008R2 instance to SQL Server 2016. This post details migration day.
Final Prep We...
2019-01-09
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A Monumental Migration to SQL Server 2016 - Part 1
A bit over a year ago, I blogged about my experience migrating a test SQL Server instance from a VM to a physical machine with a little help from...
2019-01-07
4 reads
2018 Year in Review
As we open 2019, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the past year.
Blogging 2018 was my biggest year of blogging yet! I published 28 posts and...
2019-01-02
Thread-safe PowerShell Logging with PSFramework
In my previous post, I mentioned that I wasn’t checking the status of my RSJobs because I had logging built into my function. I originally tried to log out...
2018-12-24
64 reads
PowerShell Multithreading with PoshRSJob
Intro PowerShell has had a native method for spawning multiple “threads” ever since I can remember, in the form of the *-Job functions. They work OK, but there are...
2018-12-17
21 reads
Tips for Attending a SQL Saturday
Matt (blog | twitter) is preparing for his first SQL Saturday presentation next weekend in Washington, DC. He’s asked:
I wanted to get an idea of some good, bad, and...
2018-11-29
4 reads
Blogs
Query Intelligence in SQL Server 2025: What Developers Need to Know
By Chris Yates
When Microsoft announced SQL Server 2025, I was curious about what would truly change...
Finding and Killing Blockers with Redgate AI Tech
By Steve Jones
Redgate has a research arm, called the Foundry, that has been experimenting with AIs...
Back at Small Data SF in 2025
By Steve Jones
Today I’m in San Francisco at Small Data SF 2025. I went to the...
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Large posts full of code not allowed anymore?
Several times now, I've seen a post asking for a solution. I've replied, and...
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Question of the Day
Slipstream parameters
What parameters are needed to enable a slipstream installation for setup.exe (SQL Server setup)?
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