One Line of Code Is All It Takes
This tweet showed up in the dbatools Slack channel Friday afternoon.
Just did my first Pull Request to "contribute" to @psdbatools. Granted, the code change was a single line of...
2017-11-18
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FLX SQL
T-SQL Tuesday #96: Folks Who Have Made a Difference
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday and this month’s edition is hosted by Ewald Cress (blog|twitter). It’s non-technical this month because we’re all recovering from PASS Summit. Ewald asks us...
2017-11-14
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The Tech & Gear of PASS Summit 2017
Continuing my series of posts about my PASS Summit 2017 experience. This is about gadgets/gear I brought & software I used, the gadgets I saw around the convention center,...
2017-11-13
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dbatools at PASS Summit 2017
I registered for Summit about a month before getting actively involved in the dbatools project, so when I saw the team was running a pre-con and I was going...
2017-11-06
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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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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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Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Helps with Commit Messages
By Steve Jones
At Redgate, we’re experimenting with how AI can help developers and DBAs become better...
Startup scripts in SQL Server containers
I was messing around performing investigative work on a pod running SQL Server 2025...
Using SQL Compare with Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate recently released SQL Compare v16, which included a new feature to work with...
Forums
What is Page Density
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: Fuzzy String Search II
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Azure-SSIS, Self-Hosted Integration Runtime, & Data Gateway?
Looking to confirm my understanding of these three products and how they can be...
Question of the Day
What is Page Density
In SQL Server, there is a concept of page density. This is determined by how much data is stored on each page. What is a page density of 90%?
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