Sleepless for Seattle
PASS Summit 2017 is only a week away and to say I’m excited about it would be an understatement. This will be my third trip to the epic gathering...
2017-10-23
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FLX SQL
My First Migration with dbatools
I’ve been a proponent of dbatools for close to a year now and even contributed to the project, but surprisingly haven’t been a heavy user of it. Mostly due...
2017-10-20
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dbatools Badge Ribbons at PASS Summit
One of the (many) fun things to do at PASS Summit is to check out the ribbons people have attached to their badges. Some are witty or goofy, others...
2017-10-05
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T-SQL Tuesday #94 - Automating Configuration Comparison
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Rob Sewell and he’s posed the following question:
What are you going to automate today with PowerShell?
I’m cheating a little bit in that...
2017-09-12
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Stashing Data for dbatools
While working on an enhancement to dbatools, I had a need to stash a local copy of a file downloaded from the internet, but in a safe place that...
2017-08-17
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Getting Started with GitHub for dbatools
I’ve recently started contributing to the dbatools project and it’s all done through GitHub. Prior to this, I’d never used git and GitHub for anything more than an offsite...
2017-08-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #92: Lessons Learned the Hard Way
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Raul Gonzalez and he’s asked everyone to share things we might be a bit embarrassed about:
For this month, I want you...
2017-07-11
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Spell-checking dbatools with Visual Studio Code
Earlier this week I was working on adding a new feature to Update-DbaTools and while looking at another cmdlet to check syntax/conventions, I noticed an ugly typo in some...
2017-07-05
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Don't Forget the Network
A few weeks ago I was looking at a query and got tripped up by the network and my own forgetfulness. It was a pretty simple query with a...
2017-06-12
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An Unexpected Side-Effect of Invoke-WebRequest
Recently I was working on a bit of PowerShell to download the awesome First Responder Kit from Brent Ozar Unlimited. The canonical URL for the FRK is http://firstresponderkit.org/ but...
2017-06-05
8 reads
Blogs
Fabric as a Data Mesh Enabler: Rethinking Enterprise Data Distribution
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have approached data management with the same mindset as someone stuffing...
Truncate Table Pitfalls
Truncate Table Pitfalls Truncating a table can be gloriously fast—and spectacularly dangerous when used carelessly....
dataMinds Connect 2025 – Slides & Scripts
You can find all the session materials for the presentation “Indexing for Dummies” that...
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DBCC CHECKIDENT
What is returned as a result set when I run this command without a new seed value?
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