Pester 4.2.0 has a Because…… because :-)
I was going through my demo for the South Coast User Group meeting tonight and decided to add some details...
2018-01-18
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SQL DBA With A Beard
Using the AST in Pester for dbachecks
TagLine – My goal – Chrissy will appreciate Unit Tests one day
Chrissy has written about dbachecks the new up and coming...
2018-01-15
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Converting a Datarow to a JSON object with PowerShell
This is just a quick post. As is frequent with these they are as much for me to refer to...
2018-01-05 (first published: 2017-12-18)
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Handling Missing Instances when Looping with Pester
In my previous posts about writing your first Pester Test and looping through instances I described how you can start...
2017-11-30
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2 Ways to Loop through collections in Pester
In my last post I showed you how to write your first Pester test to validate something. Here’s a recap
Decide...
2017-11-28
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Write Your first Pester Test Today
I was in Glasgow this Friday enjoying the fantastic hospitality of the Glasgow SQL User Group@SQLGlasgow and presenting sessions with Andre...
2017-11-16
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TSQL2sDay – Folks Who Have Made a Difference
This months TSQL2sDay is an absolute brilliant one hosted by Ewald Cress
the opportunity to give a shout-out to people (well-known...
2017-11-14
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Comparing Agent Jobs across Availability Group Replicas with PowerShell
On the plane home from PAS Summit I was sat next to someone who had also attended and when he...
2017-11-27 (first published: 2017-11-10)
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Using Plaster To Create a New PowerShell Module
Chrissy, CK and I presented a pre-con at PASS Summit in Seattle last week
Tracey Boggiano T | B came along to our...
2017-11-22 (first published: 2017-11-09)
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dbatools with SQL on Docker and running SQL queries
I had a question from my good friend Andrew Pruski dbafromthecold on twitter or SQL Container Man as I call...
2017-11-07
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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