Max Length of a column in a DataTable in PowerShell
Whilst I was writing my Test-DbaLastBackup Posts I ran into a common error I get when importing datatables into a...
2017-04-01
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SQL DBA With A Beard
Getting SQL Server File Sizes and Space Used with dbatools
I read a great blog post about answering the question how big is the database using T-SQL on SQL Buffet...
2017-03-29
986 reads
Test your Sqlserver backups on Linux with PowerShell and dbatools
I have written about Test-DbaLastBackup in posts here, here and here. They have been Windows only posts.
With SQL Server vNext...
2017-03-27
352 reads
Using Pester with dbatools Test-DbaLastBackup
In previous posts I have shown how to use Test-DbaLastBackup from dbatools and how you can make use of the...
2017-04-11 (first published: 2017-03-25)
1,661 reads
Backing up SQL Server on Linux using Ola Hallengrens Maintenance Solution
With the release of SQL Server vNext CTP 1.4 SQL Agent was released for use on Linux. To install it...
2017-04-06 (first published: 2017-03-22)
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Taking dbatools Test-DbaLastBackup a little further
In a previous post I showed how easy it is to test your backups using Test-DbaLastBackup
Today I thought I would...
2017-04-05 (first published: 2017-03-22)
1,928 reads
Testing Your SQL Server Backups the Easy Way with PowerShell & dbatools
In a previous post I wrote about how easy it was to restore a whole SQL Servers user databases from...
2017-03-20
1,010 reads
Restoring an entire SQL Server user databases with PowerShell using dbatools
All the good DBAs backup their databases.
A significant amount of SQL DBAs use Ola Hallengrens maintenance solution to do so.
This...
2017-03-29 (first published: 2017-03-18)
3,056 reads
Adding a PowerShell Job Step to an existing SQL Agent Job Step with PowerShell
In my last post I showed how to add a T-SQL Job step to an existing SQL Agent Job. The...
2017-03-13
1,142 reads
VS Code PowerShell Snippets
Just a quick post, as much as a reminder for me as anything, but also useful to those that attended...
2017-03-17 (first published: 2017-03-12)
2,690 reads
Blogs
Accept the no and move on
By Brian Kelley
Here is a short emotional intelligence (EI) post for today, courtesy of Seth Godin....
Don’t Fight with AI
By Steve Jones
I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools...
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Forums
jdbc auth failing to sql from sap's cloud middleware CPI
hi , our business partner is asking s4 sap api's for receivable info and...
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How to Work with On-Premises...
Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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