Posted in SQL Server SSIS TSQL

SSIS Catalog (SSISDB) Cleanup – Revisited

I wrote about cleaning up the SSIS Catalog a while back, but needed to revisit this recently for a different use and needed something that…

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Posted in DBA PowerShell Scripting SQL Server

Quickly execute a folder of SQL scripts using dbatools and PowerShell

I have often run into a situation where it’s been necessary to execute a bunch of scripts handed to me by developers or others. When…

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Posted in PowerShell Scripting

Putting The PowerShell Window Title To Better Use | xkln.net

I’ll admit that I typically use VSCode for most of my scripting, but Milosh Djuric put together some neat PS to make the console window…

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How SQL Server Professionals can benefit from using version control – Kevin Chant

Kevin has a great read on why Database people should use version control. It’s really easy to just keep files in e-mails, random folders, and…

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Posted in DBA TSQL

Checking and Configuring File Autogrowth for SQL Server

One thing that I seem to come across often enough is the old auto-growth settings from SQL Server. 1MB for data files, 10% for logs….

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Posted in PowerShell SQL Server

Importing Registered Servers from SSMS into Azure Data Studio – Port 1433

Drew Furgiuele came up with a PS script to import your SSMS Registered Servers into Azure Data Studio. He wrote it up in much more…

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Posted in Security SQL Server

Sharing: Feature Restrictions in SQL Server 2019 – a warning

Solomon Rutzky posted some thoughts on the new “Feature Restrictions” in SQL Server 2019, which some have said might help with SQL Injection. He writes…

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Posted in Azure SQL Server

SQL Login Failures and Azure SQL

We ran into an issue recently with a large number of SQL Login failures triggering an alert for our sysadmins. This was in one of…

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Posted in PowerBI

Analyzing Slack Traffic with PowerBI

The other day in the SQL Community Slack channels, we started chatting about general usage of Slack – which channels saw the most activity, what…

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Posted in Scripting TSQL Tuesday

Automating File Processing with Python and SQL Server

Garry Bargsley ( b | t ) asks us this month what does “Automate all the things” mean to you. After all, if we have…

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