Stéphane Haby

SQL Server: Replace the old SCOM login by the new one

It’s every time hard to replace a login who as role and permissions in every database like the service account for SCOM. In the previous version of Scom, you create a service account (dbiscom) to access the SQL Server(…)

Ansible Basics Workshop day @dbi services

Today, I follow our Workshop Ansible Basics with Jérôme Witt. Why I follow this workshop? First, it’s to have the basics and Best Practices before begin myself and do “bricolage” by my customers.

Copy or Migrate a SSISDB environment 2.0

Based on the blog “Copy or Migrate a SSISDB environment” of my colleague Christophe, I create a new one named 2.0. In the precedent script, you need to give the folder name and environment name and he(…)

First steps on Kusto Query Language (KQL)

Do you know this query language?  No, it’s time to explain you and see what it is.   “A Kusto query is a read-only request to process data and return results.” dixit Microsoft Documentation here The KQL(…)

SQL Server tips: How to migrate database-users in another domain without touching permissions

By a customer, I must migrate a database from a domain to another. The goal is to keep the database-user permissions, take the new SID from the windows login of the new domain and change the database-user name.

SQL Server 2019: Copy files through SQL Server

Three new interesting extended stored procedures comes with SQL Server 2019. I was very interested to discover these new store procedures: Sys.xp_copy_file is to copy a specific files from a folder to another Syntax: exec master.sys.xp_copy_file ‘source folder+file’, ‘destination(…)

SQL Server Tool: MSSQL-CLI

MSSQL-CLI is a useful new command line tool. Not so new because this tool exist since 2018 but a little bit unknow. You find this tool on GitHub here. One of the(…)

SQL Server Tips: Path of the default trace file is null

In addition of my precedent blog about this subject “SQL Server Tips: Default trace enabled but no file is active…”, I add a new case where the default path of the trace file was empty. The(…)

One day training @ Microsoft Azure Cloud Workshop

Today, with my colleague Christophe, we follow the Microsoft Azure Training Day: Data and Analytics @ Microsoft Zürich (Wallisellen to be exact). After a presentation of SQL Server 2019, we begin with the First Lab about(…)

SQL Server Tips: Orphan database user but not so orphan…

Beginning of this year, it is good to clean up orphan users in SQL Server databases. Even if this practice must be done regularly throughout the year of course. 😉 During my cleaning day, a new case appears that(…)