I’ve been doing migrations fairly continuously for the past 18 months. PowerShell has been my primary mechanism for many parts of the process, including copying jobs from the source SQL Server to the target. That has worked almost without incident …
SQL Server professionals may be reluctant to start using PowerShell. After all, you already know T-SQL well and can do a lot with that to manage SQL Server. I’ve been using PowerShell to manage SQL Server for the last 5 years and it has …
As data professionals responsible for SQL Server, it is drilled into our heads that we need to take backups. But, how do we know we actually have backups available to us when we need them? How can we verify that a backup has been taken? Some types …
Reading the SQL Server Error Log is important when troubleshooting many issues for SQL Server. Some example issues would be errors related to Always On Availability Groups, long IO occurrence messages, and login failures. Unfortunately, the SQL …
You’re a data professional and you’ve been given the keys to a new SQL Server environment. You know you need to build a SQL Server inventory so you know what is in your environment, but how do you get that information? One of the things I have talked …
I recently needed to configure log shipping for multiple databases at once as part of a migration project. I turned to PowerShell to do this. But before we get to that part, this post assumes that you’ve done the upfront work to create shares for the …
So, I realize it’s now almost April of 2021 when I’m posting this. Normally this sort of post would come out in January for the previous year. However, I have a reason for this being late and I’ll actually post about that separately. Showing My Blog …
I currently manage 5 AlwaysOn Availability Groups. Two are on SQL Server 2014 and overdue for an upgrade, while three of them are on SQL Server 2017. From time to time I have run into a couple of different situations that I needed to troubleshoot and …
Over the last 9 weeks I took you on a journey of skills and career topics related to being a SQL Server DBA. We looked at the Production DBA. We saw skills and career topics from the beginning to mid-career to Senior DBA. Then we looked at the …
Production and Development DBA Skills and Things We Didn’t Touch On We’ve covered a lot of ground for Production and Development DBAs in terms of the skills and applicable career topics. We’ve mentioned necessary skills with T-SQL, backup/restore, …