Version Update, Code Signing and publishing to the PowerShell Gallery with VSTS
At the fabulous PowerShell Conference EU I presented about Continuous Delivery to the PowerShell Gallery with VSTS and explained how...
2018-05-01
470 reads
SQL DBA With A Beard
Professional and Proficient PowerShell: From Writing Scripts to Developing Solutions at PASS Summit
PASS Summit is the largest conference for technical professionals who leverage the Microsoft Data Platform. PASS Summit 2018 is happening November...
2018-04-11
300 reads
Checking Availability Groups with dbachecks
It’s been 45 days since we released dbachecks
Announcing dbachecks – Configurable PowerShell Validation For Your SQL Instances https://t.co/2dmUdKtgTQpic.twitter.com/N8W01KaKo9
— Rob Sewell (@sqldbawithbeard) February...
2018-04-18 (first published: 2018-04-08)
2,220 reads
Easily Splatting PowerShell with VS Code
So I always like to show splatting PowerShell commands when I am presenting sessions or workshops and realised that I...
2018-03-11
1,285 reads
dbachecks – Configuration Deep Dive
Today is the day that we have announced dbachecks a PowerShell module enabling you to validate your SQL Instances. You...
2018-02-22
1,070 reads
Announcing dbachecks – Configurable PowerShell Validation For Your SQL Instances
For the last couple of months members of the dbatools team have been working on a new PowerShell module called dbachecks....
2018-03-07 (first published: 2018-02-22)
2,601 reads
VS Code – Terminal crashes when formatting script
I love VS Code. I love being able to press ALT + SHIFT + F and format my code.
The Problem
Yesterday all I...
2018-02-10
479 reads
How I created PowerShell.cool using Flow, Azure SQL DB, Cognitive Services & PowerBi
Last weekend I was thinking about how to save the tweets for PowerShell Conference Europe. This annual event occurs in...
2018-02-03
760 reads
How to write a PowerShell function to use Confirm, Verbose and WhatIf
In my last blog post I showed how to run a script with the WhatIf parameter. This assumes that the...
2018-02-05 (first published: 2018-01-25)
1,588 reads
How to run a PowerShell script file with Verbose, Confirm or WhatIf
Before you run a PowerShell command that makes a change to something you should check that it is going to...
2018-01-23
1,001 reads
Blogs
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Setting PK Names in Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names....
Forums
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers