Recently by a customer, we are facing the case to lose all mount points on a secondary node in a HA SQL Server AlwaysOn infrastructure due to a big problem on the Datacenter. We need to build from scratch all mount points for the Data, Log and Tempdb. After multiple researches, I didn’t find how to give back correctly the…
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 and check the health of the databases. Now it’s possible to use the System Center Operations Manager Health Service (NT SERVICEHealthService).…
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 generates all environment variables for these 2 parameters. In my case, I need to generate all folders and what are in these folders.…
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 is very simple to understand and use. I can do it then you can also do it! 😛 The first thing to know…
This Blog is about some findings on Microsoft’s new Flexible Server offering for PostgreSQL which is in Customer Preview at the moment. Findings about the infrastructure The Microsoft Flexible Server for PostgreSQL is using Ubuntu as OS infrastructure, I think it is worth to be noticed that Microsoft’s new offering is switching from Windows to Linux. postgres=> select version(); version…
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. In my blog, I will do it with two dbi’s domains: – dbiservicech: The old domain – dbiservicecorp: The new domain I…
As we moved to Teams at dbi and one of our customers, automating tasks was a strong need. One of the tasks that could be automated is the creation of tasks in Microsoft Planner which does not support recurring tasks. Every 4 weeks, we are patching the environment. For everyone awareness and follow up, we need to publish these dates…
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 big advantage is the number of platforms available, Windows of course but also macOS, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOs, Red Hat, OpenSuse, Suse Enterprise and Fedora. This interactive command-line query…
Few days ago, a customer asks me if it is possible to move the history table to slower but cheaper storage. The question behind this is whether it is possible to create a history table on a separate filegroup and file. Few years ago, I write a serie of blogs about temporal table here. I will take the same example…
After long hours of flights, Christophe Cosme and I finally arrived in Seattle at the SQL PASS Summit 2018. We picked up our badge and bag and now we are ready to begin… This first day for me started with the pre-conference about SQL Server Security with Denny Cherry. Many topics were discussed like: Network Designs (such as public IP…
Few months ago, a customer asks me for finding in a column, how many rows exist with the same date & time and the delta between them. The column default value is based on the function CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and used as key as well. This is obviously a very bad idea but let’s go ahead… This anti pattern may lead to…
Few weeks ago, I have a little issue when I try to drop a database-user without login Unfortunately, I do a little mistake at the beginning… I receive like every morning a report if all AD logins (computers, groups, users) registered on SQL server instances are in the AD with the useful command sp_validatelogins This report indicates that a computer…
