Power Bi, PowerShell and SQL Agent Jobs
Continuing my series on using Power Bi with my DBA Database I am going to show in this post how...
2015-10-01 (first published: 2015-09-28)
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SQL DBA With A Beard
Populating My DBA Database for Power Bi with PowerShell – Databases
Following my post about using Power Bi with my DBA Database I have been asked if I would share the...
2015-09-22
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Enterprise Strategies – A #TSQL2sDay post
This months TSQL2sDay blog post party is hosted by Jen McCown and is about Enterprise Strategy.
Adam Mechanic started TSQL Tuesdays...
2015-09-08
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Populating My DBA Database for Power Bi with PowerShell – SQL Info
Following my post about using Power Bi with my DBA Database I have been asked if I would share the...
2015-09-07
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Use Twitter to get #PowerShell help
A quick post today just to add some weight to something that Mike Fal b | t has kicked off. The #SQLHelp...
2015-09-06
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Populating My DBA Database for Power Bi with PowerShell – Server Info
Following my last post about using Power Bi with my DBA Database I have been asked if I would share...
2015-09-09 (first published: 2015-08-31)
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Using Power Bi with my DBA Database
Every good DBA should have a DBA database. A place to store information about all of their instances and databases.
I...
2015-08-21 (first published: 2015-08-16)
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Setting Up and Using Azure VM SQL Automated Backup (and Restore)
This weekend I was creating some Azure VMs to test and was required to use the GUI for some screenshots....
2015-07-24
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Installing and upgrading default scripts automation – part one – Introduction
First I must say thank you to all of the wonderful people who have put time and effort into providing...
2015-06-16 (first published: 2015-06-08)
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Scheduling Ola Hallengrens Maintenance Solution Default Jobs with Powershell
If you are a SQL Server DBA you should know about Ola Hallengren and will probably have investigated his Maintenance...
2015-05-20 (first published: 2015-05-06)
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Blogs
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
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I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Forums
SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Query Performance...
Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
ROLLUP to calculate Month total for all Categories
Good Afternoon, I have built a table with four columns: Period(Month), Category, Numerator, Denominator....
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Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
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