After 23 years in one place, I'm pulling up stakes and moving. We're selling our house in one state in the US and we're buying a house in another state about half a continent away. To say it's a stressful and exhausting process is an understatement. The worst part is that no one has defined […]
Patching is a chore that any system administrator needs to deal with. As SQL Server 2016 moves out of mainstream support, Steve asks if you have a plan and how often you ensure systems are patched.
This article covers the basics of upserting data in CosmosDB using Azure Data Factory.
The SQL Server transaction log must be managed to keep a database running and performing well. In this article, Greg Larsen explains how to manage the transaction log size.
How to use PowerShell cmdlets, such as Select-String, to glance at the contents of the application logs, or use them in conjunction with Regular Expressions to sift through log files in detail looking for particular types of error.
Learn how you can add parameters to your PowerShell scripts to make them more flexible and useful.
First we had the Solarwinds hack, and now we have a Kaseya ransomware epidemic. It seems the criminals are moving up the stack. We used to see physical attacks on tapes and keyboards, then we saw OS level attacks. Now we seem to be getting to the management layer for software that is used to […]
When comparing databases, save your standard options and filters to a single project file, and then use PowerShell to script them out to the command line. This allows you to reuse the same project file across multiple comparison operations.
Monitoring SQL Server for performance is a critical part of a DBA’s job. In this article, Edward Pollack explains some of the SQL Server performance monitor data and how to collect it.
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When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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