Speaking? You? Go on. #tsql2sday #84
This is a blog post for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday post, hosted by Andy Yun (b|t). T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly...
2016-11-08
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SQL DBA With A Beard
PowerBi and API – Visualising my Checkins
For my own amusement and also to show my wife where I have been I use the Swarm check-in app...
2016-11-03 (first published: 2016-10-29)
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PSConfAsia 2016
I have just got back to the UK from Singapore following the amazing PSConfAsia conference. I must say that Matt,...
2016-10-24
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PowerShell, Pester and Ola Hallengrens Maintenance Solution
If you are a SQL DBA you will have heard of Ola Hallengrens Maintenance solution If you haven’t go and...
2016-10-04 (first published: 2016-09-24)
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The SQL Server Community Collaborative GitHub Organisation is born
My wonderful friend Chrissy LeMaire and I are the creators of two GitHub repositories for SQL Server and PowerShell called...
2016-09-14
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Converting SQL Agent Job Duration to TimeSpan using PowerShell
When you look in msdb for the SQL Agent Job duration you will find that it is an int.
This is...
2016-09-15 (first published: 2016-09-12)
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Making Start-Demo work with multi-line commands without a backtick
I love to speak about PowerShell. I really enjoy giving presentations and when I saw Start-Demo being used at the...
2016-08-29
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Remove-SQLDatabaseSafely My First Contribution to DBATools
What is DBA Tools?
A collection of modules for SQL Server DBAs. It initially started out as ‘sqlmigration’, but has now...
2016-07-20
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Using the new SQLServer Powershell module to get SQL Agent Job Information
So with the July Release of SSMS everything changed for using PowerShell with SQL. You can read the details here...
2016-07-14 (first published: 2016-07-03)
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PowerShell CMDLets added for SQL2016 Always Encrypted
The post on the SQLServer blog at TechNet by the SQL Server Tools Team today made me jump out of...
2016-06-30
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