Getting Started with GitHub for dbatools
I’ve recently started contributing to the dbatools project and it’s all done through GitHub. Prior to this, I’d never used git and GitHub for anything more than an offsite...
2017-08-09
5 reads
alevyinroc
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T-SQL Tuesday #92: Lessons Learned the Hard Way
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Raul Gonzalez and he’s asked everyone to share things we might be a bit embarrassed about:
For this month, I want you...
2017-07-11
5 reads
Spell-checking dbatools with Visual Studio Code
Earlier this week I was working on adding a new feature to Update-DbaTools and while looking at another cmdlet to check syntax/conventions, I noticed an ugly typo in some...
2017-07-05
13 reads
Don't Forget the Network
A few weeks ago I was looking at a query and got tripped up by the network and my own forgetfulness. It was a pretty simple query with a...
2017-06-12
3 reads
An Unexpected Side-Effect of Invoke-WebRequest
Recently I was working on a bit of PowerShell to download the awesome First Responder Kit from Brent Ozar Unlimited. The canonical URL for the FRK is http://firstresponderkit.org/ but...
2017-06-05
11 reads
How I Became a...SQL Server DBA
Kevin Hill mentioned this idea/series on a SQL community slack channel back in April and I thought it would be a good way to get back to blogging. The timing...
2017-05-30
24 reads
I Finally Get Cross Apply!
For years I’ve looked at various queries online in sample code, diagnostic queries using DMVs, and the like and seen CROSS APPLY in the FROM clauses. But I’ve never...
2017-05-22
4 reads
Adding Application Name to Invoke-SqlCmd2
In a previous post, I expressed some frustration over Invoke-SqlCmd not setting an Application Name for its ODBC connection, leaving us with the generic .NET SqlClient Library when looking at active sessions...
2017-01-20
48 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #86: SQL Server Bugs & Enhancement Requests
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Brent Ozar and he’s asked everyone to find interesting bug or enhancement requests in Microsoft Connect related to SQL Server.
The Connect item doesn’t have...
2017-01-10
3 reads
Make Your Application's Name Heard
Odds are, you’ve got more than one application or script accessing your database or SQL Server instance at any given time. You’re probably stacking them on a small number...
2017-01-02
7 reads
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I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
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Monday Monitor Tips: SQL Auditing Preview
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One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way...
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Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
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