SQL Saturday Albany NY 2019

I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting at SQL Saturday #855 in Albany, NY on July 20, 2019. Join me at 2 PM in room LC05...

dbatools One Point OH YEAH!

Announced at DataGrillen 2019 today, the amazing dbatools PowerShell module has officially released version 1.0. This is a tremendous milestone for the best Open Source project built for data...

dbatools One Point OH YEAH!

Announced at DataGrillen 2019 today, the amazing dbatools PowerShell module has officially released version 1.0. This is a tremendous milestone for the best Open Source project built for data...

T-SQL Tuesday #113 -A Database for the Great Outdoors

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday comes from Todd Kleinhans (blog | twitter) who wants to know what we’re doing with databases outside of work.

I’m curious- outside of work and...

T-SQL Tuesday #112 - The Cookie Jar

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday comes from Shane O’Neill (blog | twitter). He starts us off with this:
Dipping into the Cookie Jar is about when the going gets tough and...

Speaking

A place to collect abstracts & links to presentations I’ve given. Please be sure to check out my Sessionize profile as well.
Backup Basics with PowerShell and dbatools Abstract As...

Speaking: Rochester SQL Server User Group March 2019

Probably a bit late getting this posted but I will be speaking at the March 5, 2019 meeting of the Rochester SQL Server User group (RSVP link). I don’t...

One Peril of Database Proliferation

By now many of us have upgraded from SQL Server 2008R2 and we’re on the “regular Cumulative Updates” train now. For the rest, it’ll (hopefully) happen soon. And since...

Appearance: SQL Data Partners Podcast #161

Carlos Chacon (twitter) was kind enough to have me back on the SQL Data Partners Podcast to talk about my experiences with managing 8000 databases on a single instance...

Tidier PowerShell Scripts with Default Parameter Values

I was recently working on a PowerShell script to set up some new databases for my users and found myself writing the same things over and over again.
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