Starting on dbatools version 1.0.31 we introduced better coverage for commands that make use of PowerShell Remoting. Which commands? Commands like Get-DbaComputerCertificate, Get-DbaPrivilege, Get-DbaClientAlias, just to mention a few...
2019-08-29 (first published: 2019-08-20)
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A brand new product by Microsoft called Azure Data Share was recently announced. It is in public preview. To explain the product in short, any data which resides in...
2019-08-29 (first published: 2019-08-19)
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Releases seem to be coming out thick and fast at the moment, here’s the latest v1.6 revision to sp_restorescript For those of you backing up to Azure BLOB Storage,...
2019-08-29
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It’s a running joke among the more experienced (read, older) Microsoft Data Platform specialists as to whether you’re #teamprofiler or #teamexevents. I’m very much #teamexevents, but I really don’t...
2019-08-28 (first published: 2019-08-19)
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This is one of those typical blog posts that I write for my future self, the guy who keeps fixing the same stuff over and over and forgets what...
2019-08-28 (first published: 2019-08-16)
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As regular readers of this blog will know, I’m a big fan of AzCopy, especially now that it has a sync option to keep local data synchronized with blob...
2019-08-28
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I recently had someone tell me, and I’m paraphrasing a bit here: We know how to fix this now, so ... Continue reading
2019-08-28
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Occasionally I’ve seen date and time stored separately as integers. This had some practical applications back before we had date ... Continue reading
2019-08-27 (first published: 2019-08-15)
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Watch this week's video on YouTube
Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans
Today I'm...
2019-08-27
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Watch this week's video on YouTube
Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans
Today I'm...
2019-08-27
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Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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