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Using Pester with Get-DbaLastGoodCheckDb from dbatools
In my last post I showed Get-DbaLastGoodCheckDb from dbatools. This module is a community based project written by excellent, brilliant people in their own time and available to you free. To find out...
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Testing SQL Server Access to a share with PowerShell using dbatools
A good security practice is to backup our SQL Servers to a network share but not allow users to be able to browse the share. How can we ensure that our SQL Server has access or test it if it has been...
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Export SQL User Permissions to T-SQL script using PowerShell and dbatools
There are times when DBA’s are required to export database user permissions to a file. This may be for a number of reasons. Maybe for DR purposes, for auditing, for transfer to another database or...
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Why VS Code Increases my Productivity
Last week I was showing a co-worker some PowerShell code and he asked what the editor was that I was using. Visual Studio Code I said. Why do you use that? What does it do? This is what I showed him...
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dbatools at #SQLSatDublin
This weekend SQL Saturday Dublin occurred. For those that don’t know SQL Saturdays are free conferences with local and international speakers providing great sessions in the Data Platform sphere....
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PowerShell Module for the SQL Server Diagnostics API – 1st Command...
I saw this blog post about the SQL Server Diagnostics add-on to SSMS and API and thought I would write some PowerShell to work with it as all of the examples use other languages. SQL ServerDignostics...
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Creating a PowerShell Module and TDD for Get-SQLDiagRecommendations
Yesterday I introduced the first command in the SQLDiagAPI module. A module to consume the SQL Diagnostics API. I have been asked a few times what the process is for creating a module, using Github and...
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Using Get-SQLDiagFix to get information from the SQL Server Diagnostic API...
The SQL Server Diagnostics Preview was announced just over a week ago It includes an add-on for SQL Server Management Studio to enable you to analyse SQL Server memory dumps and view information on the...
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TSQL2sDay – Get-PostRoundup
First an apology, this round up is late! The reason for that is an error in the PowerShell testing module Pester (That’s not completely true as you shall see!!) I spoke in Stuttgart at the PowerShell...
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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 him How do you guys run SQL Commands in dbatools I will answer that at the bottom of this...
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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 saw on my laptop that I was part of the SQL Community we struck up a conversation. He asked me how he could...
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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 or otherwise) who have made a meaningful contribution to your life in...
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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 about the Because parameter available in the Pester pre-release version 4.2.0. To install a...
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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. This open source PowerShell module will enable you to validate your SQL...
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dbachecks – Configuration Deep Dive
Today is the day that we have announced dbachecks a PowerShell module enabling you to validate your SQL Instances. You can read more about it here where you can learn how to install it and see some...
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Creating SQL Server Containers for versions 2012-2017
I am working on my dbatools and dbachecks presentations for SQL Saturday Finland, SQLDays, SQL Saturday Cork and SQLGrillen I want to show the two modules running against a number of SQL Versions so I...
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dbachecks – Save the results to a database for historical reporting
I gave a presentation at SQL Day in Poland last week on dbachecks and one of the questions I got asked was will you write a command to put the results of the checks into a database for historical...
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Gathering all the Logs and Running the Availability Group Failover Detection...
30/11/2018 – Function has been updated to deal with named instances. Last week the Tiger Team released their Availability Group Failover Detection Utility which will provide root cause analysis on...
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Running Windows and Linux SQL Containers together
Just for fun I decided to spend Christmas Eve getting Windows and Linux SQL containers running together. WARNING This is NOT a production ready solution, in fact I would not even recommend that you try...
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