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Creating Azure SQL Database AAD Contained Database Users with an SPN using...
Following on from my posts about using Secret Management Good bye Import-CliXml and running programmes as a different user, I have another use case. After creating Azure SQL Databases in an Elastic...
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Notifying a Teams Channel of a SQL Agent Job result
Following on from yesterdays post about creating an overview of SQL Agent Job Results and sending it to a Teams channel, I was given another challenge Can you write a job step that I can add to SQL...
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Sending a SQL Agent Job results overview to a Microsoft Teams Channel
Microsoft Teams is fantastic for collaboration. It enables groups of people, teams if you like to be able to communicate, collaborate on documents, hold meetings and much much more. SQL Agent Job...
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Running Jupyter Notebooks as Agent Jobs
Azure Data Studio is a great tool for connecting with your data platform whether it is in Azure or on your hardware. Jupyter Notebooks are fantastic, you can have words, pictures, code and code...
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Using Azure DevOps Build Pipeline Templates with Terraform to build an AKS...
In the last few posts I have moved from building an Azure SQL DB with Terraform using VS Code to automating the build process for the Azure SQL DB using Azure DevOps Build Pipelines to using Task...
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Using the same Azure DevOps build steps for Terraform with different...
In my last post I showed how to build an Azure DevOps Pipeline for a Terraform build of an Azure SQLDB. This will take the terraform code and build the required infrastructure. The plan all along has...
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Getting SQL Services, Starting, Stopping and Restarting them with dbatools
There was a question in the #dbatools slack channel Getting dbatools dbatools enables you to administer SQL Server with PowerShell. To get it simply open PowerShell runInstall-Module dbatoolsYou can...
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Deploying To a Power Bi Report Server with PowerShell
Just a quick post to share some code that I used to solve a problem I had recently. I needed to automate the deployment of some Power Bi reports to a Power Bi Report Server PBRS using TFS. I had some...
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Using the PowerShell AST to find a ForEach Method
In dbachecks we enable people to see what checks are available by running Get-DbcCheck. This gives a number of properties including the ‘type’ of check. This refers to the configuration item or...
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Write Your first Pester Test Today
I was in Glasgow this Friday enjoying the fantastic hospitality of the Glasgow SQL User Group @SQLGlasgow and presenting sessions with Andre Kamman, William Durkin and Chrissy LeMaire I presented...
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Using Plaster To Create a New PowerShell Module
Chrissy, CK and I presented a pre-con at PASS Summit in Seattle last week Tracey Boggiano T | B came along to our pre-con and afterwards we were talking about creating PowerShell modules. In her blog...
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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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Testing the Identity Column usage in SQL Server with PowerShell and dbatools
SQL Server uses identity columns to auto generate values, normally keys. When you create an identity column, it has a data type and that data type has a maximum number of values. BigInt...
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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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Getting SQLServers Last Known Good DBCC Checkdb with PowerShell and dbatools
As good SQL Server DBA’s we want to ensure that our databases are regularly checked for consistency by running DBCC CheckDB. This will be frequently scheduled using an Agent Job or by using Ola...
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Test the SQL Server database collation with PowerShell and dbatools
If your server collation is different to your database collation then you may find that you get an error similar to this Cannot resolve the collation conflict between “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS” and...
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Getting SQL Server File Sizes and Space Used with dbatools
I read a great blog post about answering the question how big is the database using T-SQL on SQL Buffet and wondered how much I could do with the dbatools module The dbatools module (for those that...
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Using Pester with dbatools Test-DbaLastBackup
In previous posts I have shown how to use Test-DbaLastBackup from dbatools and how you can make use of the results. Today we will look at using Pester with the results Pester provides a framework for...
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Taking dbatools Test-DbaLastBackup a little further
In a previous post I showed how easy it is to test your backups using Test-DbaLastBackup Today I thought I would take it a little further and show you how PowerShell can be used to transmit or store...
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Testing Your SQL Server Backups the Easy Way with PowerShell & dbatools
In a previous post I wrote about how easy it was to restore a whole SQL Servers user databases from a directory using the dbatools module. Maybe it is a good idea to look at for disaster recovery...
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