Using Docker to run Integration Tests for dbachecks
My wonderful friend André Kamman wrote a fantastic blog post this week SQL Server Container Instances via Cloudshell about how...
2019-02-06 (first published: 2019-01-19)
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SQL DBA With A Beard
Running Windows and Linux SQL Containers together
Just for fun I decided to spend Christmas Eve getting Windows and Linux SQL containers running together.
WARNING
This is NOT a...
2019-01-04 (first published: 2018-12-24)
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Getting SQL Services, Starting, Stopping and Restarting them with dbatools
There was a question in the #dbatools slack channel
Getting dbatools
dbatools enables you to administer SQL Server with PowerShell. To get...
2018-12-03
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SQL Server Availability Group FailoverDetection Utility PowerShell Function Improvements – Named Instances, Archiving Data, Speed
In my last post I wrote about a new function for gathering the data and running the FailoverDetection utility by...
2018-12-19 (first published: 2018-12-01)
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Gathering all the Logs and Running the Availability Group Failover Detection Utility with PowerShell
30/11/2018 – Function has been updated to deal with named instances.
Last week the Tiger Team released their Availability Group Failover Detection...
2018-12-17 (first published: 2018-11-28)
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Getting the SQL Version from a backup using dbatools ………. on PowerShell Core
Following an upgrade to SQL Server the backup share had a number of backups, some from the old version and...
2018-12-12 (first published: 2018-11-26)
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PASS Summit, SQLTrain and My First US SQL Saturday
Next week is the week when I used to dread looking at Twitter and especially the #PASSsummit hashtag, watching all of...
2018-10-31
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Checking Trace Flags with dbachecks, online docs and PSPowerHour
It’s been a few weeks since i have blogged as I have been busy with a lot of other things....
2018-10-10 (first published: 2018-09-29)
1,955 reads
Deploying To a Power Bi Report Server with PowerShell
Just a quick post to share some code that I used to solve a problem I had recently.
I needed to...
2018-09-04 (first published: 2018-08-21)
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Using the PowerShell AST to find a ForEach Method
In dbachecks we enable people to see what checks are available by running Get-DbcCheck. This gives a number of properties including...
2018-08-16
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers