When one of your DBA colleagues leaves the company, what is your checklist?
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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Cláudio Silva
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Recover database encrypted modules code with dbatools
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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When one of your DBA colleagues leaves the company, what is your checklist?
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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Recover database encrypted modules code with dbatools
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
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Generate SQL Server Role Member Reports using dbatools and ImportExcel PowerShell modules
This was initial posted on SQL Server Central articles. As one of dbatools' first members, I've been using it for years and it's really my goto tool. This task...
2020-07-31
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Generate Role Member Reports using dbatools and the ImportExcel PowerShell modules
Being able to get information and save it on a Excel as a report can be a common and tedious task. What if we could join dbatools and ImportExcel PorwerShell modules to accomplish this in a easier and fast way? We will see how to export roles and its' member and save that info on a multi spreadsheet Excel file with handy tables ready to be explored.
2020-06-30
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Backup your SQL instances configurations to GIT with dbatools – Part 2 – Add parallelism
We have seen how we can export and save the results to a folder and commit them to a GIT repository on my last blog post Backup your SQL...
2020-06-22 (first published: 2020-06-04)
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Backup your SQL instances configurations to GIT with dbatools – Part 1
Today I want to share how I’m keeping a copy of instances’ configurations using dbatools. Chrissy LeMaire (B | T) wrote about it before on the Simplifying disaster recovery...
2020-06-15 (first published: 2020-06-02)
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Replicate permissions to new Login/User with dbatools
Continuing to share tips and tricks using dbatools like the Refresh databases that belongs to availability group using dbatools posted a few days ago, today I will share a...
2020-06-12 (first published: 2020-05-28)
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Export Deadlocks to file from system_health Extended Event using PowerShell
Just a quick post as may help any of you searching for this. Scenario Client wants to analyze most recent deadlocks that happened on a specific instance. They asked...
2020-06-09 (first published: 2020-05-25)
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