okay I think then we solved the puzzle, the issue is

$dt=get-date -format "_yyyymmmd_HHmss"

should be

$dt=get-date -format "_yyyyMMMdd_HHmss"

I personally never thought of MMM as "Nov" -...

Sure, here are some suggestions:

$dt=get-date -format "_yyyymmmd_HHmss"

What is this supposed to return exactly? I have never met a 3 digit month before nor can I write any...

Hey,

there's this rather good article about reauthorization of a Stretch DB, you have a few options regards the parts in the cloud with sp_rda_reauthorize_db

Hope this helps

I learned at a conference that you can play Chess on Reporting Services, unfortunately I'm unable to find the sources for that or an updated Power BI version 🙂

Strange, maybe you forgot to scroll down past the first 4 results?  

In any case, have a look here.

Sometimes I wonder if people deliberately search the interwebz in the darkest (and especially "oldest") places and try to apply things from 17(!) years ago rather than even giving it...

Honest response about how you did? Sure! I did know about SQL Edge before PASS (which I unfortunately couldn't attend to, again) without being pre-briefed by Microsoft. 

November 7, 2019 at 2:48 pm

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It would be nice to mention in such articles that the approach used here only works for tables with clustered indexes, once you're down to heaps with indexes you would...

I'd like to wear "The Stig" - a white racing suit and white racing helmet - because without many words I make things work faster (again).

Well you should aswell consider that speaking strictly "technical work" the higher your hourly rate is, the bigger the chance they'll leave you to do your work instead of calling...

I've been running my own consulting business for 9 years straight until I decided to get employed again. My monthly income now isn't that bad compared to being your own...

I use both paper and keyboard, if it's something I like to track like issue progress it's mostly Excel. If I'm talking design / issue with someone it's most of...

When you run the patch package you will have a choice of which instances you want to update located on that server.

have you had a look at this link?

I'm not associated with this so I can't bring more help to the table except maybe change the tool completely...

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