Responsible Log Growth with dbatools
I love dbatools, and I’ve been trying to explore the various cmdlets over time, both to practice my PoSh and...
2017-09-08 (first published: 2017-08-25)
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Blog Posts
“Invalid class [0x80041010]” error when trying to access SQLServer’s WMI classes
I was using open source PowerShell module dbatools (GitHub repository) to get the list of SQL Server services I have...
2017-09-07
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'Invalid class [0x80041010]' error when trying to access SQLServer's WMI classes
I was using open source PowerShell module dbatools (GitHub repository) to get the list of SQL Server services I have on a bunch of hosts so I could confirm...
2017-09-07
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Q&A Session with SQL Server on VMware Experts at VMworld EMEA
Greetings everyone! We had so many people stay after our SQL Server on VMware sessions at VMworld USA to ask...
2017-09-07
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Q&A Session with SQL Server on VMware Experts at VMworld EMEA
Greetings everyone! We had so many people stay after our SQL Server on VMware sessions at VMworld USA to ask...
2017-09-07
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SQL Saturday Minnesota Preconference Training Session
This is just a quick reminder to encourage you to attend my next round of all-day precon training session at the...
2017-09-07
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SQL Saturday Minnesota Preconference Training Session
This is just a quick reminder to encourage you to attend my next round of all-day precon training session at the...
2017-09-07
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The Transient Database Snapshot Has Been Marked Suspect
Yet another tale from the ticket queue...
The DBCC CheckDB was failing on INSTANCE99 and after some investigation it looked like...
2017-09-07 (first published: 2017-08-24)
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There EXISTS a place where SELECT 1/0 doesn’t return an error.
Kendra Little (b/t) reminded me of this fun little trick (with fairly important ramifications) in her latest quiz on logical...
2017-09-07
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VLFs the Forgotten Foe
How many of you check the amount of Virtual Log Files (VLFs) your transaction logs have?
Working as a consultant now,...
2017-09-07 (first published: 2017-08-23)
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
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