dbachecks – A different approach for an in-progress and incremental validation
dbachecks is a new PowerShell module from the SQL Server Community! For more information, read introducing dbachecks. If you don't...
2018-02-22
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dbachecks – Using Power BI dashboards to analyse results
For the last couple of months, members of the dbatools team have been working on a new PowerShell module called...
2018-02-22
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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)
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Recovering a TDE protected database without the Certificate
If you’ve been careful and done everything right when you’re setting up TDE then you shouldn’t run into this problem.
We...
2018-02-21
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Dates and Times in SQL Server: DATETIME
Last year I ran a series of posts about Database Fundamentals. Over the next few weeks, I will cover the...
2018-02-21
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Automating Database Deployment: Part 3 Running RoundhousE
Now that we have a basic understanding of RoundhousE database deployment from the first two parts of this series let’s get to the good stuff. If you haven't read...
2018-02-21
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Windowing without a partition by or an order by
If you’ve never worked with windowing functions they look something like this:
SELECT name, max(create_date) OVER
-- No this isn't meant to...
2018-02-21
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SQL Server Updates Tricked Me for Years
When applying a new SQL Server cumulative update, hot fix, or upgrade SQL Server doesn’t always apply all the fixes...
2018-02-21
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Azure SQL Elastic Pools
In this video tutorial David talks you through the benefits of Azure SQL Elastic pools. Elastic pools allow you to...
2018-02-21
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Indexing and Partitioning
Partitioning tables is a great tool to increase the manageability of your data. Being able to move large amounts of...
2018-02-21
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Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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