Hitting the Wall – #TSQL2sDay
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Welcome to another edition of T-SQL Tuesday!
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Wayne Sheffield ( blog | twitter ) and he has asked...
2018-08-14
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SQL DBA With A Beard
A PowerShell Conference In A Book
A Question
Shortly after the European PowerShell Conference and the PowerShell and Devops 2018 summit in the USA Mike Robbins b...
2018-08-17 (first published: 2018-08-01)
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A PowerShell Pester Check for parsing SQL scripts
I like to write Pester checks to make sure that all is as expected! This is just a quick post...
2018-07-25
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dbachecks – Dark Mode Historical Validation PowerBi
in my last post I showed how you can save the results of dbachecks to a database and created a...
2018-06-07 (first published: 2018-05-28)
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dbachecks – Save the results to a database for historical reporting
I gave a presentation at SQL Day in Poland last week on dbachecks and one of the questions I got...
2018-05-31 (first published: 2018-05-23)
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dbachecks – Improved Descriptions
With the latest release of dbachecks we have added a new check for testing that foreign keys and constraints are...
2018-05-25 (first published: 2018-05-19)
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dbachecks – Which Configuration Item For Which Check ?
I love showing dbachecks to people. It’s really cool seeing how people will use it and listening to their experiences....
2018-05-15
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Creating SQL Server Containers for versions 2012-2017
I am working on my dbatools and dbachecks presentations for SQL Saturday Finland, SQLDays, SQL Saturday Cork and SQLGrillen I want...
2018-05-10
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#tsql2sday – Giving Back – Reprise
It’s TSQL Tuesday again! This month our host is Riley Major (b/t) and the subject is Giving Back. He’s given us...
2018-05-08
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Visual Studio Code Live Sharing Set-Up
There was an announcement on the Visual Studio Code blog about the public preview of Live Share. This enables you...
2018-05-17 (first published: 2018-05-08)
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Blogs
SQL Bits 2025 Wrap
By Steve Jones
SQL Bits 2025 was amazing, as always. It’s been my favorite conference to attend,...
Simplify Kubernetes Security With Kyverno and OPA Gatekeeper
Here’s how these tools can make Kubernetes security easier and help you avoid common...
A New Word: Lackout
By Steve Jones
lackout – n. the sudden awareness that you’re finally over someone, noticing that the...
Forums
Shades and Reflecting on SQLBits and the Bright Future of Data
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Shades and Reflecting on SQLBits...
Merge techniques
In Azure SQL DB, i want to merge records from the staging table to...
SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant value...
Full error message: SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant...
Question of the Day
Adding Defaults
I have a table, called dbo.logger, in SQL Server 2022. I decide to add two new columns to this table with this code.
ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD CreateDate DATETIME CONSTRAINT dfGetDate DEFAULT GETDATE() GO ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD ModifyDate DATETIME DEFAULT dfGetDate GOWhat happens when I run these two batches? See possible answers