Spinach and Database Development- SQLSatExeter Keynote
Last weekend, we held our SQL Saturday event in Exeter. It was a brilliant event for many reasons but we...
2015-04-30
1,101 reads
SQL DBA With A Beard
Instances and Ports with PowerShell
Just a quick post and a day late for #SQLNewBlogger There are some excellent posts on that hashtag and I...
2015-04-22
1,382 reads
Checking SQL Server User Role Membership with PowerShell
SQLDBAwithTheBeard:
Please go and check the New SQL Bloggers posting here https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sqlnewblogger There are some brilliant new and older bloggers adding great value...
2015-04-24 (first published: 2015-04-14)
5,506 reads
PowerShelling SQL Saturday Sessions to the Guidebook app
Following on from my previous post about parsing XML where I used the information from Steve Jones blog post to...
2015-04-07
784 reads
Parsing XML Child Nodes and Converting to DateTime with PowerShell
As part of my organiser role for SQLSaturday Exeter (Training Day Information here and Saturday Information here) I needed to...
2015-03-31 (first published: 2015-03-21)
6,905 reads
Speaking at PowerShell Virtual Chapter and SQL Cardiff User Group this month
Just a quick post to say that I will be speaking at the PowerShell Virtual Chapter meeting this Thursday at 4pm...
2015-03-17
552 reads
Triggering a System Center Configuration Manager deployment task
A slightly different topic today.
Once you have built up knowledge, you become the person that people ask to solve things....
2015-03-02 (first published: 2015-02-18)
6,546 reads
Show AutoGrowth Events with Powershell to CSV
This week I was reading Pinal Daves post about Autogrowth Events
http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2015/02/03/sql-server-script-whenwho-did-auto-grow-for-the-database/
as it happened I had a requirement to make use...
2015-02-25 (first published: 2015-02-15)
6,260 reads
Uploading a Source Folder to Azure File Storage
Azure File Storage enables you to present an Azure Storage Account to your IaaS VMs as a share using SMB....
2015-02-09 (first published: 2015-02-01)
7,664 reads
Twas 2 Days Before Xmas or Thank you SQLFamily
Twas 2 days before Xmas & all through the office,
not a creature was stirring not even old Maurice.
With merriment going on...
2014-12-23
534 reads
Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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