Nathan Courtine

SQL Server 2016 CTP2: Stretch database feature – Part 2

In my previous blog SQL Server 2016 CTP2: Stretch database feature – Part 1, I explained how to prepare your instance and your database to enable the Stretch feature for your table. Now I present you how to enable(…)

SQL Server 2016 CTP2: Stretch database feature – Part 1

SQL Server 2016 CTP 2 has introduced some interesting new features such as Always Encrypted, Stretch database, the configuration of the tempdb in the SQL Server installation, aso… Regarding the configuration of the tempdb in SQL Server 2016 CTP 2,(…)

Get the main information from SQL Server databases with PowerShell

As I promised in my previous blog Get the main Administration Information from SQL Server with PowerShell, I will present you this time how to retrieve the SQL Server databases information with PowerShell. Disclaimer: I am not a(…)

Get SQL Server Network Configuration with PowerShell

This blog is part of a set which try to automate the SQL Server administration with PowerShell. It explains how to retrieve the network configuration of a SQL Server instance with PowerShell. I will refer to my previous blog Get(…)

Get the main Administration Information from SQL Server with PowerShell

In my previous blog Get SQL Server services with PowerShell, I presented you the first step of the SQL Server administration through an automated process. This blog is a follow-up of the previous one, and it will focus(…)

Get SQL Server services with PowerShell

SQL Server Configuration Manager and SQL Server Management Studio are the main tools to administrate the components of SQL Server. They are very convenient to use and pretty complete. But as soon as you wish an automated process, these(…)

Get the main information from Windows Server with PowerShell

This blog will present you a way to retrieve Windows Server main information via PowerShell. The goal is to be able to automate the extraction of information for different purposes: audit, report generation, dashboards…   Disclaimer: I am not a(…)

Managed Backup with SQL Server 2014

In a previous blog post called Backup a SQL Server database from On-Premise to Azure, I presented the different tools to backup your on-premise databases on Azure Storage. SQL Server Managed Backup to Windows Azure was one of(…)

How to store SQL Server data files in Azure Storage

A new functionality, introduced with SQL Server 2014, enables to store data files from a SQL Server database in Windows Azure Storage. In this posting, I will show how it works.   Accessing Azure Storage The(…)

The SQL Server DBA’s essential toolkit list

This week, I attended the SQLSaturday 2014 in Paris. During the Pre-Conference on Thursday, I followed Isabelle Van Campenhoudt for her SQL Server Performances Audit session. This conference took the form of an experience sharing between attendees. Indeed,(…)