Blog Changes Coming
Over the next couple days (weeks?), a significant change is coming to my blog (and if you’re reading this text, it’s already happened). I will be leaving Wordpress behind...
2022-04-25
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alevyinroc
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My PASS Data Community Summit 2021 Speaking Experience
If you’d asked me 5 years ago if I would ever speak at Summit, I’d have said “no way, not possible.” I didn’t even think I was able to...
2021-11-19
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PASS Data Community Summit 2021
A collection of the resources mentioned in my PASS Data Community Summit session Backup Basics with PowerShell and dbatools, including bonus content!
2021-11-10
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PASS Data Community Summit 2021 Presentation Resources
A collection of links and resources related to my PASS Data Community Summit 2021 presentation Backup Basics with PowerShell and dbatools including bonus content! Resources dbatools main site dbatools...
2021-11-10
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Lesson Learned From Multi-Threading with dbatools
Over the summer, I spent some (a lot of) time working on updates to a script at work which runs multiple processes in parallel. Everything seemed to work OK...
2021-10-27
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Lesson Learned From Multi-Threading with dbatools
Over the summer, I spent some (a lot of) time working on updates to a script at work which runs multiple processes in parallel. Everything seemed to work OK...
2021-10-27
17 reads
Regular Expression Search & Replace in Visual Studio Code
Kind of a diversion into a Visual Studio Code/Azure Data Studio tip here (this works in both, as well as SQL Server Management Studio). I’m not a regular expression...
2021-08-31
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PASS Data Community Summit 2021 – I’m Speaking!
I am thrilled to announce that I will be speaking at this year’s PASS Data Community Summit! This year’s event runs November 8th through 12th. I am thrilled to...
2021-08-20
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PASS Data Community Summit 2021 - I'm Speaking!
I am thrilled to announce that I will be speaking at this year’s PASS Data Community Summit! This year’s event runs November 8th through 12th. I am thrilled to...
2021-08-20
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Troubleshooting Backup Compression for Encrypted Databases
For years, I thought that native backups of databases using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) couldn’t be compressed. Between TDE being limited to Enterprise Edition until SQL Server 2019 and...
2021-06-18
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Hyperscale Replicas V
I have an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition system running with a geo-replica enabled. Can I create a new geo-replica based on the current secondary geo-replica?
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