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PowerShell: Compare Users’ AD Groups

When it comes to user logins and permissions in SQL Server, I typically prefer to use Active Directory groups. The problem with that is that you don’t always know what …

Configurations / DB Engine

Upcoming IDERA Geek Sync – March 17th, 2021

Don’t miss my upcoming IDERA Geek Sync, How To Be The DBA When You Don’t Have A DBA, this Wednesday, March 17, 2021. This webinar is for the “Accidental DBA”: …

Configurations / Errors

SQL Server Crashes When Hitting 80 Percent RAM Usage

I recently ran into a situation where a new SQL Server would crash hard every time it would get under a load. Here is a synopsis of what we were …

PowerShell

Patching Multiple SQL Servers With Powershell and dbatools

Patching SQL Server can sometimes be a time consuming process, especially when you have multiple servers that need to be patched. Remoting in to each box to run through the …

PowerShell

Using dbatools PowerShell Module To Set MAXDOP And Max Memory

As I continue my blog series on using the dbatools PowerShell module, today I want to discuss using it to set MAXDOP and Max Memory on your SQL Server.  This builds directly …

PowerShell

Using dbatools PowerShell Module To Configure SQL Server

The more I use the dbatools PowerShell module, the more I like it.  It really is a solid set of scripts that allow you to easily manage your SQL Servers via PowerShell.  …

DB Engine / SQL Scripts

SQL Scripts: How To Find A Database’s Compatibility Level

One thing that a lot of DBAs, especially Accidental DBAs such as myself, don’t seem to realize is that just because a database is sitting on a specific version of …

Availability Groups

Change The Isolation Level Of An Availability Group Database

I recently needed to change the Transaction Isolation Level of one of our databases in an Availability Group.  As it turns out, this is not as straight forward as you …

DB Engine / System Views

Discover Which Deprecated Features Are Being Used

With each new release of SQL Server comes a list of new features, along with a list of features that have been deprecated.  These deprecated features are not immediately disabled …

DB Engine

What Features Are Disabled Between Compatibility Levels In SQL Server?

Have you ever wondered what features may or may not be available when your database is running in a different compatibility level than your SQL Server version? I recently came …

System Views

Checking The Status Of Email Sent From SQL Server

When sending email via sp_send_dbmail, SQL Server will log the status of each message processed by Database Mail. Below is quick list of Database Mail Views you can query to …

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