Exporting configuration data from SQL Sentry
SQL Sentry is a pretty cool monitoring system but there's a downside to having so many knobs to turn:
it's next...
2018-11-07
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Cody Konior
Don't go to the PASS Summit speed networking session
Up until now I've been enjoying my first PASS Summit and doing my own light networking.
At breakfast and lunch there's...
2018-11-06
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SMO "leaks" SQL login passwords (in memory) and (some) SecureStrings in clear-text
Updated 2018-11-04: Expanded test code, renamed the
title of the post so it's clearer.
SMO (SQL Server Management Objects) are the .NET...
2018-11-03
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Validating SMO security bugs with Pester
SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) are the .NET classes underpinning Management Studio and all good PowerShell that interfaces with SQL...
2018-03-20
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2018-03-13
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Availability Group round-robin read-only routing isn't magic
I've been hearing about round-robin read-only routing ever since SQL 2016 came out but whenever I tried to test if...
2018-03-08
280 reads
Upgrading an expired SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Edition
It's happened to almost everyone. Someone installs Evaluation Edition and now you need to upgrade
it to a licensed copy using...
2017-11-30
866 reads
Are your disks formatted with UseLargeFRS?
PureStorage has a pretty cool post that mentions the importance of formatting SQL Server disks with a 64KB clusters and...
2017-10-18
2,329 reads
Something you didn't know about validating full-text indexing
My favourite way to compare technical experience with others is to ask them about the ways in which something can...
2017-04-26
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Availability group replica murdered in cold blood by WSFC
This problem was first flagged by a daily operational validation test I wrote using everything in my recent webinar to...
2017-03-15
209 reads
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Migrating from Azure PG Single Server to Flex with Azure VM and pg_dump/restore
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PowerShell (and T-SQL) and Elastic Jobs
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A New Word: Redesis
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AG Rules for Databases
Which of these is not a requirement for a database to be added to an Availability Group (AG)?
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