A (big) SQLPackage caveat
Context I had a request to help with a database from a third-party vendor which uses a lot of FullText-Search (FTS) catalogs. I have to say that I just...
2021-12-29
Cláudio Silva
Recover database encrypted modules code with dbatools
This article was initially posted on SQLServerCentral @ 2020-08-18. It was interesting some comments I read about it, mainly why people still use WITH ENCRYPTION when it's simple to...
2020-09-22
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When one of your DBA colleagues leaves the company, what is your checklist?
Whether it’s in our personal lives or the professional one, we do have checklists for certain tasks. On the professional level, it can be purely technical like SQL Server...
2020-09-03
Generate SQL Server Role Member Reports using dbatools and ImportExcel PowerShell modules
This was initial posted on SQL Server Central articles. As one of dbatools' first members, I've been using it for years and it's really my goto tool. This task...
2020-07-31
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TSQL Tuesday #127 – Non SQL Tips and Tricks – Windows
This month’s (#127) T-SQL Tuesday is brought by Kenneth Fisher (B | T) and he asked about Non SQL Tips and tricks. As a Windows user I know there...
2020-06-09
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TSQL Tuesday
This month’s (#127) T-SQL Tuesday is brought by Kenneth Fisher (B | T) and he asked about Non SQL Tips and tricks. As a Windows user I know there...
2020-06-09
Backup your SQL instances configurations to GIT with dbatools – Part 2 – Add parallelism
We have seen how we can export and save the results to a folder and commit them to a GIT repository on my last blog post Backup your SQL...
2020-06-22 (first published: 2020-06-04)
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Backup your SQL instances configurations to GIT with dbatools – Part 1
Today I want to share how I’m keeping a copy of instances’ configurations using dbatools. Chrissy LeMaire (B | T) wrote about it before on the Simplifying disaster recovery...
2020-06-15 (first published: 2020-06-02)
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Replicate permissions to new Login/User with dbatools
Continuing to share tips and tricks using dbatools like the Refresh databases that belongs to availability group using dbatools posted a few days ago, today I will share a...
2020-06-12 (first published: 2020-05-28)
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Export Deadlocks to file from system_health Extended Event using PowerShell
Just a quick post as may help any of you searching for this. Scenario Client wants to analyze most recent deadlocks that happened on a specific instance. They asked...
2020-06-09 (first published: 2020-05-25)
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Daily Coping 26 May 2022
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Seeding an Availability Group Replica from Snapshot
Background If you’ve been using Availability Groups, you’re familiar with the replica seeding (sometimes...
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By James Serra
There were a number of data platform announcements at Microsoft Build yesterday that I...
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Account logging - pwd change/db access change
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