Version Update, Code Signing and publishing to the PowerShell Gallery with VSTS
At the fabulous PowerShell Conference EU I presented about Continuous Delivery to the PowerShell Gallery with VSTS and explained how...
2018-05-01
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SQL DBA With A Beard
Professional and Proficient PowerShell: From Writing Scripts to Developing Solutions at PASS Summit
PASS Summit is the largest conference for technical professionals who leverage the Microsoft Data Platform. PASS Summit 2018 is happening November...
2018-04-11
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Checking Availability Groups with dbachecks
It’s been 45 days since we released dbachecks
Announcing dbachecks – Configurable PowerShell Validation For Your SQL Instances https://t.co/2dmUdKtgTQpic.twitter.com/N8W01KaKo9
— Rob Sewell (@sqldbawithbeard) February...
2018-04-18 (first published: 2018-04-08)
2,226 reads
Easily Splatting PowerShell with VS Code
So I always like to show splatting PowerShell commands when I am presenting sessions or workshops and realised that I...
2018-03-11
1,287 reads
dbachecks – Configuration Deep Dive
Today is the day that we have announced dbachecks a PowerShell module enabling you to validate your SQL Instances. You...
2018-02-22
1,072 reads
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)
2,602 reads
VS Code – Terminal crashes when formatting script
I love VS Code. I love being able to press ALT + SHIFT + F and format my code.
The Problem
Yesterday all I...
2018-02-10
480 reads
How I created PowerShell.cool using Flow, Azure SQL DB, Cognitive Services & PowerBi
Last weekend I was thinking about how to save the tweets for PowerShell Conference Europe. This annual event occurs in...
2018-02-03
761 reads
How to write a PowerShell function to use Confirm, Verbose and WhatIf
In my last blog post I showed how to run a script with the WhatIf parameter. This assumes that the...
2018-02-05 (first published: 2018-01-25)
1,589 reads
How to run a PowerShell script file with Verbose, Confirm or WhatIf
Before you run a PowerShell command that makes a change to something you should check that it is going to...
2018-01-23
1,006 reads
Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 2: Generative AI, Multimodal Systems, and Agent AI
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
Forums
A Quick Restore
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Guarding Against SQL Injection at the Database Layer (SQL Server)
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
Question of the Day
A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers