Using Docker to run Integration Tests for dbachecks
My wonderful friend André Kamman wrote a fantastic blog post this week SQL Server Container Instances via Cloudshell about how...
2019-02-06 (first published: 2019-01-19)
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My wonderful friend André Kamman wrote a fantastic blog post this week SQL Server Container Instances via Cloudshell about how...
2019-02-06 (first published: 2019-01-19)
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Just for fun I decided to spend Christmas Eve getting Windows and Linux SQL containers running together.
WARNING
This is NOT a...
2019-01-04 (first published: 2018-12-24)
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There was a question in the #dbatools slack channel
Getting dbatools
dbatools enables you to administer SQL Server with PowerShell. To get...
2018-12-03
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In my last post I wrote about a new function for gathering the data and running the FailoverDetection utility by...
2018-12-19 (first published: 2018-12-01)
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30/11/2018 – Function has been updated to deal with named instances.
Last week the Tiger Team released their Availability Group Failover Detection...
2018-12-17 (first published: 2018-11-28)
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Following an upgrade to SQL Server the backup share had a number of backups, some from the old version and...
2018-12-12 (first published: 2018-11-26)
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Next week is the week when I used to dread looking at Twitter and especially the #PASSsummit hashtag, watching all of...
2018-10-31
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It’s been a few weeks since i have blogged as I have been busy with a lot of other things....
2018-10-10 (first published: 2018-09-29)
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Just a quick post to share some code that I used to solve a problem I had recently.
I needed to...
2018-09-04 (first published: 2018-08-21)
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In dbachecks we enable people to see what checks are available by running Get-DbcCheck. This gives a number of properties including...
2018-08-16
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By Steve Jones
I missed blogging yesterday as I was on stage/backstage for quite a bit of...
By Brian Kelley
A common theme in the PASS Summits I've attended is community and that's definitely...
By Chris Yates
I am excited to cover the Microsoft Keynote on Day 2: Redgate Keynote: Simplifying...
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In my SQL Server 2022 database, I run this:
USE Sales; GO CREATE DATABASE ENCRYPTION KEY WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256 ENCRYPTION BY SERVER CERTIFICATE MyServerCert; GOThis works, but I want to prepare for the future and potential issues. How do I back up my DEK? See possible answers