Are you starting to experiment with Azure SQL Databases? Is your company interested in moving to the Cloud and asking you to investigate different options? This blog will show you three options to connect to an Azure SQL Database using the same tooling you would use for on-premises SQL Databases. I will demonstrate the three Read More …
This week’s blog post will help you check your SQL Servers up-time. There are numerous reasons I can think of that you would want to know how long your SQL Server has been online. Was the server recently patched, did it crash and come back online, or did someone restart it by mistake? These are Read More …
Hello and welcome back… It has been a few months since I have published a blog post. More like 126 days, to be exact. Unfortunately, I have been dealing with some physical and mental health challenges that have kept me from writing. However, those things are behind me, and now I am ready to get Read More …
As you sit and wonder about when the next Star Wars movie is going to come out, do you ever get the thought of “I wonder if all my SQL Servers are configured the same?” Occasionally, I get a thought like that run through my mind. Or I might see something on Twitter or Blog Read More …
Have you ever opened the SQL Server Error Log and wondered, “where are all the errors?” Digging through the Error Log to find what you need can be a pain. Sure, you could use several methods to parse through the Error Log to find what you are looking for, but sometimes you want to take Read More …
Have you ever run across an issue that made you take a step back and scratch your head? Recently, I had this exact situation hit my Inbox. One of the development servers started alerting due to the Index Maintenace job failing. The first day, I ignored it because it was a development server. On day Read More …
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Mikey Bronowski. The subject he chose is “The outstanding tools of the trade that make your job awesome.” Tools are the cornerstone of our industry. The SQL Server community is excellent about taking something that they create for personal reasons and sharing it with the masses. It Read More …
Do you ever take a look at SSMS in the System Databases section? People that are new to SQL Server might or might not know much about these essential System Databases. Four System Databases are required for every SQL Server to function. Below I will outline the model database, which has a unique purpose for Read More …
Welcome to the New Year of 2021. For some people I know, they might prefer to forget most if not all of 2020. Personally, I am not one of them. I decided to refocus my blogging effort midway through the year. See this post that explains my process. In doing so, I branched out Read More …
This week we are going to launch a blog series geared towards folks that are new to PowerShell. The growing popularity of automation is seeing people getting started with the PowerShell scripting language. The Start-Transcript is a built-in command that allows you to quickly build a log of actions being taken by your script. There Read More …
