dbatools - Exceptions
Who doesn’t like a good red and verbose exception? At PowerShell community we often call it a “sea of red” which we found as something that can be intimidating....
2022-06-27 (first published: 2022-06-07)
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Who doesn’t like a good red and verbose exception? At PowerShell community we often call it a “sea of red” which we found as something that can be intimidating....
2022-06-27 (first published: 2022-06-07)
336 reads
Some datatypes can be shown in so many different forms (think measurament units, dates with short/long forms, or regional settings) that can be difficult to have a standard. What...
2022-06-13 (first published: 2022-06-02)
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Context I had a request to help with a database from a third-party vendor which uses a lot of FullText-Search (FTS) catalogs. I have to say that I just...
2021-12-29
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Disclaimer: The title is my assumption because I saw it in the past happening this way. This blog post aims to make you remember something: something that is obvious...
2021-04-29 (first published: 2020-02-21)
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When was last time you have checked your Always On Availability Groups' replicas storage distribution?
2020-11-09
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-WhatIf you could see what would happen if you ran a command?
2020-10-23
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A colleague left the company, a couple of days after SQL Server processes start failing...what do you do?
2020-09-29
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This article was initially posted on SQLServerCentral @ 2020-08-18. It was interesting some comments I read about it, mainly why people still use WITH ENCRYPTION when it's simple to...
2020-09-22
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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
2,689 reads
By Steve Jones
Recently I got a message that my Evernote subscription was going up. It’s been...
By Steve Jones
A customer had a question recently on masking Chinese characters. I thought that was...
By Steve Jones
looseleft – the feeling of loss upon finishing a good book, sensing the weight...
I have two attributes hierarchies in my dimension [Dim Project]: Project Code Opening date...
Hi, I have a few AWS EC2 instances currently running SQL Server 2016. I'd...
Hello, I need help to improve an existing (hence I cannot change table's structure...