SQL Server

SQL Server: Audit changes on Instance Configuration, Linked Servers and Agent Jobs

Introduction Very often with our customers, there is only one person with the DBA role. The configuration of the instances is then under control and if anything strange has to be questioned, the culprit is quickly identified. 🙂 When(…)

SQL Server connectivity issue – troubleshoot TLS configuration

In the blog post, I will share a case of troubleshooting a connectivity issue with SQL Server. The problem occurred in a migration context. The SQL Server databases (in version 2008 to 2014) from multiple applications were consolidated on a(…)

SQL Server: Create a Shared Storage for your Failover Cluster LAB

I’m currently working on the migration of a Failover Clustered SSAS instance from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2019. The context is quite complex and in order to choose the right migration scenario I need to play with it(…)

SQL Server: Control the size of your Transaction Log file with Resumable Index Rebuild

Introduction In this blog post, I will demonstrate how the Resumable capability of Online index rebuild operation can help you to keep the transaction log file size under control. An index rebuild operation is done in a single transaction(…)

SQL Server TCP: Having both Dynamic Ports and Static Port configured

Introduction Have you ever seen an SQL Server instance configured to listen on both “TCP Dynamic Ports” and “TCP (static) Port”? This kind of configuration can be caused by the following scenario: A named instance is installed. By default, it(…)

Validate your SQL Server infrastructure with dbachecks

Introduction In this blog post, I’ll do an introduction to the PowerShell module dbachecks. dbachecks uses Pester and dbatools to validate your SQL Server infrastructure. With very minimal configuration you can check that(…)

An Introduction to Pester – Unit Testing and Infrastructure checks in PowerShell

Introduction If you never heard of it, Pester is a PowerShell module, written in PowerShell. It’s a framework for writing and running unit tests, integration tests, and also infrastructure checks as we will see in a moment.

Getting started with SQL Server on Linux containers with Docker Desktop and WSL2

In this blog post, I will show you the steps I went through to run SQL Server inside a Linux Docker container on my Windows 10 laptop. The aim here is to deploy quickly and easily SQL Server instances(…)

SQL Server: Generating SQL script using PowerShell and Template file

In this blog post, I will share with you a small PowerShell script I did recently. I have noticed that my customer performs a very repetitive and time-consuming task almost every day. New columns are added to tables on(…)

SQL Server AlwaysOn node “Add all eligible storage to the cluster”

I made a mistake recently when adding a new node to an existing Windows Failover Cluster supporting AlwaysOn SQL Server instances. When adding a new node using the GUI there’s this option checked by default named “Add all eligible storage(…)