Problem It has been a little over a year since I ran across the community that is dbatools. Not in my career have I seen an online community of professionals been this welcoming and helpful to people on a daily basis. dbatools is a collection of PowerShell functions that makes the life of a Microsoft Read More …
I am excited to participate in my second T-SQL Tuesday. My preference is to do this monthly, but the topic is not always in my wheelhouse so I have to skip them. However, this months topic is one I like to talk about: Learning. For 2017 I started the year getting introduced to dbatools and Read More …
It is no secret that I have become a Fan-Boy of the open source community project dbatools. I have been in IT for over 20 years and have worked with different scripting languages for performing tasks. In recent years, I have “hacked” together PowerShell scripts I found online to accomplish specific tasks. dbatools takes DBA Read More …
Recently I had the opportunity to attend my second SQL Skills training course. I was honored that my company felt it was worth while for my career growth to send me to such a top notch training class. This was my second time to attend a SQL Skills training event. The first one was hosted Read More …
☺☺ Please forgive me for the title, but that is an inside joke between my wife and I ☺☺ This post is going to recap my goal setting process and mid year review or how I am progressing at the half way point in 2017. Goal Setting Process: I looked at how I approached life Read More …
In this final edition of my “PowerShell Learning series” I will cover how PowerShell has improved my DBA skills as well as how it has put me on some new tracks of learning. Previous Posts: Part 1 of 4 – PowerShell Learning for the SQL DBA Part 2 of 4 – PowerShell Learning – SQL Migration for Read More …
Here is a continuation blog on things I learned to do with PowerShell to fix an issue in my day-to-day task list. This one may not be daily, but I think it might help someone out there. Previous Posts: Part 1 of 4 Part 2 of 4 Issue: A couple weeks ago we had a Read More …
Continuing on my PowerShell learning journey, this is part two of my series for the SQL DBA. This will focus on the DBATools utility that was originally built for SQL Migration by Chrissy LeMaire (t) and has evolved into an awesome tool that will help your average DBA automate tasks and be able to get Read More …
Have you ever racked your brain as to why a server looks busy, but the overall health of the server is fine? There is no obvious answer for what could be causing the issue you are experiencing. Server History This issue has plagued me for a month regarding one server. We have a server that Read More …
Good morning everyone… I cannot tell you how excited I am to be posting my first #TSQL2SDay blog. I am an avid follower of the hash tag each month and read all the great blogs that are published. This is the first topic since I went live with my blog in January that I can actually Read More …
