Exporting configuration data from SQL Sentry
SQL Sentry is a pretty cool monitoring system but there's a downside to having so many knobs to turn:
it's next...
2018-11-07
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Don't go to the PASS Summit speed networking session
Up until now I've been enjoying my first PASS Summit and doing my own light networking.
At breakfast and lunch there's...
2018-11-06
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SMO "leaks" SQL login passwords (in memory) and (some) SecureStrings in clear-text
Updated 2018-11-04: Expanded test code, renamed the
title of the post so it's clearer.
SMO (SQL Server Management Objects) are the .NET...
2018-11-03
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Validating SMO security bugs with Pester
SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) are the .NET classes underpinning Management Studio and all good PowerShell that interfaces with SQL...
2018-03-20
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2018-03-13
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Availability Group round-robin read-only routing isn't magic
I've been hearing about round-robin read-only routing ever since SQL 2016 came out but whenever I tried to test if...
2018-03-08
283 reads
Upgrading an expired SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Edition
It's happened to almost everyone. Someone installs Evaluation Edition and now you need to upgrade
it to a licensed copy using...
2017-11-30
868 reads
Are your disks formatted with UseLargeFRS?
PureStorage has a pretty cool post that mentions the importance of formatting SQL Server disks with a 64KB clusters and...
2017-10-18
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Something you didn't know about validating full-text indexing
My favourite way to compare technical experience with others is to ask them about the ways in which something can...
2017-04-26
170 reads
Availability group replica murdered in cold blood by WSFC
This problem was first flagged by a daily operational validation test I wrote using everything in my recent webinar to...
2017-03-15
210 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate–Being Reasonable
By Steve Jones
As a part of the Book of Redgate, we have a series of (red,...
Azure Data Factory Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest
I recently had a new pipeline fail. It was actually a copy of an...
Unlocking Real-Time Financial Insights: The Power of Microsoft Fabric
By Chris Yates
Microsoft Fabric is transforming real-time analytics for financial institutions. It provides a unified data...
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Joining against min date only
This is one of those things very hard (for me)to explain in words. See...
Feeling your age? How would you know?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Feeling your age? How would...
Sever Migration
Hi, one of my server configured with Standard_D64ds_v4 what is next level of version...
Question of the Day
Rolling Back CUs
Can I rollback a cumulative update and remove it from my SQL Server instance?
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