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Move on Brogrammers, your comments aren’t welcome anywhere.
Recently Jen McCown received a speaker evaluation form from a SQL Saturday attendee. Now normally this wouldn’t be a blog worthy event as this happens several times a year as there are easily 100 SQL...
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Minion CheckDB Beta
Come meet Codex! We’ve had many of you asking to be part of the Minion CheckDB beta and now is the time. We’re putting the finishing touches on the 1st beta and it’s looking great with some fabulous...
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Migrate from on-prem SQL server to Azure VM IaaS
Hopefully you went through my presentations Should I move my database to the cloud?, Introducing Azure SQL Database and Implement SQL Server on an Azure VM and are convinced to move your databases to...
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The world of Analytics and crossing the Rubicon and the Acheron
49 years BC, the commander of the 13th Legion stood at the River Rubicon, and paused. The dilemma was over whether or not to enter Italy. for a man who had built a career on surmounting crisis point...
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PowerShell : Scripting Logins, Role Assignments and Server Permissions Using...
This post is a continuation of Multiple DB refresh automation using PowerShell post . The OP requested me to automate the login transfer process as well. The script should generate an outfile and...
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SQL Server Service Broker – Internal Activation
This post is part of a series on this blog that will explore SQL Server Service Broker, a native messaging and queueing technology built into the SQL Server Database Engine.Previous posts:SQL Server...
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XML-> JSON document Example
Convert the XML document to JSON document example<person> <name>John</name> <age>25</age> <address> <city>New York</city>...
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Understanding Let Expressions In M For Power BI And Power Query
When you start writing M code for loading data in Power Query or Power BI, one of the first things you’ll do is open up the Advanced Editor for a query you’ve already built using the UI. When you do...
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Master_Views: master_objects, master_tables, etc
There is a highly useful system view called sys.master_files. If you’ve never encountered it before it returns a list of all files from all databases. It’s been somewhat frustrating to me that there is...
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Monday Morning SQL Break – May 16, 2016
It’s Monday time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL). This is a good chance to catch up on data platform technology and...
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Monday Morning SQL Break – May 23, 2016
It’s Monday time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL). This is a good chance to catch up on data platform technology and...
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Some Pester Tests for SQL Defaults
When I was at PowerShell Conference EU in Hannover last month (The videos are available now – click here and the slides and code here) I found out about Irwin Strachans Active Directory Operations Test...
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Connecting to Azure SQL Database
Recently I created my first Azure SQL Database. But now I need to connect to it. You can connect using any number of tools. We can actually see several options by going back to our Azure Portal. Select...
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The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)
“The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)” error may occurs when executing PowerShell scripts using WMI query.There can be a few reasons for this error:The remote computer is...
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Where are SQL Server 2016 Client Tools?
So, you just installed SQL Server 2016 and you’re pretty sure you chose the options to install the client tools all the components you needed. You look for SSMS and, what the heck? it’s not there....
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Restore a SQL Server Database with Different Methods
Database backups are generated as part of the business continuity planning procedure. Disasters with server or its database are a common scenario that takes place every now and then lead to the loss of...
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One SSMS Improvement You Might Have Missed
Takeaway: Undocked query windows in SSMS are now top-level windows.SSMS Release CycleAs you may know, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) now has its own release cycle independent of SQL Server’s...
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Some Thoughts On Logos
So today is the last Tuesday in May which means that next Tuesday is the first Tuesday in June. On that day, you can expect me to invite all SQL bloggers to participate in June’s T-SQL Tuesday. So I’m...
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SQL Server 2016: It Just Runs Faster
If you still don't believe that SQL Server 2016 is full of unicorns and rainbows then I would encourage you to try it for yourself.The post SQL Server 2016: It Just Runs Faster appeared first on Thomas...
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PowerShell : Script Method Error -Method invocation failed because...
I was working on generating scripts for logins, users and server roles and I could able to to generate scripts for users and logins but where as for server roles, the script() method is not working.The...
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