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
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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
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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
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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
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