This article explains ten ways that SQL Monitor tackles the problem of scaling out the coverage of a single, lightweight monitoring system, and so allows your teams to maintain the health and performance of larger collections of databases and higher numbers of monitored SQL servers.
Using default credentials is a poor practice, but people still continue to forget to change them.
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In this article we present a PowerShell script that can help you monitor all of your SQL Server Availability Groups in your environment.
My final job in my previous career was at a hospital. I worked there for five years in the 90s before getting my first position as a developer. While I didn’t love the career I was leaving, I did appreciate what I learned from that last job. Part of the onboarding included a short class […]
Introduction Recently, I had the task of analyzing a varchar field for special characters. The field contained text entered by the user with a standard US keyboard; however, the proprietary software was breaking up the text and delimiting it with characters whose ASCII values were above 127. Eyeballing the text that I dumped using a […]
Availability Groups are a good way to use High Availability in SQL Server, Today Steve wonders if you have any improvements you would make to the technology.
In this article we look at how to upload and download files from Azure Storage using SQL Server Integration Services.
SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used together, from the command line, to provide a complete build process, or to script out changes to both the database and its development data. For doing this routinely, I find it easiest to script the operation using PowerShell.
Microsoft fights back against hackers after a recent vulnerability in a management framework.
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