SQL Server

dbachecks: how to add your own checks

As a DBA I used more and more the dbachecks at customer place to validate environments. It became part of our DBA toolkit at the same place than its famous brother the dbatools.My colleague Steven Naudet did(…)

Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 –  Day 4 – Focus on Azure SQL Managed Instance

Today the Data Platform Virtual Summit begin at 09:30 am with the keynote: Creating a Data Culture… My schedule for the day: D4B1 – SPHINX – Configure SQL Server for efficient troubleshooting – Intermediate – Christophe LaporteD4B2 –(…)

Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 –  Day 3

Today the Data Platform Virtual Summit begin at 06:00 am for us…It’s in our time offset, this time better to wake up! 😉 My schedule for the day: D3B1 – KATMAI – SQL MI on Kubernetes – Intermediate(…)

Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 –  Day 2

Today the Data Platform Virtual Summit begin at 03:30 am for us… It’s a little bit early but better than yesterday. My schedule for the day: D2B1 – HYDRA – Overview of SQL Server 2022 – Intermediate(…)

Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 –  Day 1

Today the Data Platform Virtual Summit begin at 00:30 am for us… It’s a little bit early but when we like our work and like to learn, we stay up with plaisir. My schedule for the day:(…)

Data Platform Virtual Summit Pre-con 2022

Thanks to dbi services to let me the opportunity to follow this week and next week, the Data Platform Virtual Summit beginning with the Pre-con. I subscribe the session of Guy Glantser about(…)

How to automatically download last SQL Server SP and CU with PowerShell

One of my customer asked me some days ago to create a PowerShell script to patch its SQL Server instances. After a reflection time, the first step will be to download the last Service Pack and the last Cumulative(…)

SQL Server 2022 security: Do you know Ledger?

You probably hear or view that on the security point of view, the next version of SQL Server: SQL Server 2022, has a feature named Ledger. It’s already used in Azure but what is Ledger? In 2(…)

SQL Server Deadlock on UPDATE with Serializable isolation level

Recently I spent some time on a recurring Deadlock problem on a customer’s site in a high concurrency environment. It was only after finding the solution on my own that I discovered that this particular problem is already well(…)

SQL Server Security: Check if the guest is active on all user-databases through the CMS

Today, a customer asks me to have look on each SQL Server instance to control if the user-database Guest is active or not. The easiest way is to go through the CMS (Central Management Servers) with a query but(…)