Roland Alexander was an application developer for the first half of his 20+ year career in IT – then he came over to the Dark Side of SQL Server development, and is now diving headfirst into the deep end of the DBA pool. This blog is about his observations, discoveries, trials, and tribulations, and he hopes you enjoy reading it, learn a thing or two, and (hopefully) teach him a thing or two while you’re at it.

Blogs

Creating a GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner

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I had to demo the Flyway Autopilot system recently and created a GitHub Actions...

Migrating from Azure PG Single Server to Flex with Azure VM and pg_dump/restore

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This is more complicated than using the Azure Migration method, but because it’s maxed...

PowerShell (and T-SQL) and Elastic Jobs

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I’ve covered how to create Elastic Jobs in the portal (this one is important...

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Forums

Contracting DBA - Permissions for initial analysis

By StephenSQL

Accidental DBA here.  After looking at all the work that needs to be done,...

How to convert run_date and run_time columns to datetime from SQL Agent systable

By Lord Slaagh

Hello SSC, Hope you are all having a great Monday! I am trying to...

SQL Server Reporting Services 2022 Permissions Issue

By benkaz

I'm having a bit of an issue with SSRS permissions. Users (Operations Manager Report...

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Question of the Day

AG Rules for Databases

Which of these is not a requirement for a database to be added to an Availability Group (AG)?

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