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Maintenance Azure SQL DBs in Elastic Pool (Private Endpoint) – example based on index fragmentation – password less – azure managed identity

How do you check and rebuild your indexes for Azure SQL DBs in Elastic Pool? That question is getting even more interesting if you have only Private Endpoint enabled to connect to the MSSQL DB.  Lets get started!  Requirements Azure(…)

Move SQL Server database files to different folders with PowerShell

In my previous post, I explained how to move SQL Server databases files programmatically by leveraging the high availability of an Availability Group (AG).But when you can afford to have a database unavailable for a short time, and if(…)

Control-M/EM: Order a job with the “hold” option always on

Introduction Hello everyone, as a Control-M user and job creator you will have to work on the planning domain and perform many tasks on jobs, from defining them to testing them and finally ordering them on the monitoring domain How(…)

Flexible Server for PostgreSQL, Status March 2023

As many know about a year ago I wrote some critical posts about Microsofts Flexible Server for PostgreSQL, now it is time to take a look again. At first, many promised functions where delivered with a latency of about one(…)

Starting PostgreSQL logical replication for some tables based on a dump

Recently at a customer we faced a somehow strange issue: We’ve setup logical replication from a public cloud managed PostgreSQL service to a PostgreSQL instance on a VM hosted by the same public cloud provider. For most of the tables(…)

Move secondary database files in SQL Server AG with PowerShell

For some circumstances, you may want to move data and log files for a database to a different location.Usually, this operation has to be made offline. But with an Availability Group (AG) environment, it is possible to choose an approach(…)

Estimate the Downtime for an Offline MS SQL Migration: On-Premise to Azure SQL Database

As you want to migrate your database workload to the Azure Cloud, you must test different aspects of the migration. An important factor for an offline migration is to estimate the duration of the migration process, so the service owner(…)

Programmatically change the data source of a Power BI Report

Executive Summary In this post, I want to demonstrate how to programmatically change the data source of a Power BI report. This can be useful when you develop and test the report then want to publish the report in Test,(…)

Control-M/EM : Import error conflict message “The format of do notify message is not valid”

Introduction Hello everybody,sometimes users can request us to import their job definition using xml specific file.It is quite an easy task to perform but in rare cases you can encounter some issues.When Control-m is checking the XML schema verification to(…)

Power BI Report Server Patch Management

Executive Summary As service manager in your company, you want to have your MS SQL component patch with the latest version. In a regular basis you need to know the current version of the MS SQL components on your server.