In the last week, I installed several SQL Servers for one customer and had to install and configure them all identically. What is closer here than to do this with a Powershell script, so I made the “effort” and the individual steps of the SQL Server configuration with dbatools to realize. I do not want…
EDIT:If you are looking for a ready solution, please be patient … I explain here my project history, how I proceeded when and how … As the last blog post I will present the “finished” solution. Many Thanks for your understanding In the following post, I would like to step a little more into depth…
After my first contribution – Preparing to use Desired State Configuration (DSC) – you can now take the first steps to install a SQL Server. So what do we need for prerequisites for installing a SQL Server on a new Windows Server? To my test environment … I’m using a development environment in Azure consisting…
Two years ago, I first dealt with Desired State Configuration (DSC) to create a demo for SQL Saturday #605 that continually monitors and eventually corrects the configuration of the SQL server. Now I have another lovely customer project, where I have the choice between complete implementation in Powershell (via dbatools) or just a little DSC…
I hadn’t been writing this Powershell series for a long time, and I’d like to make up for it, even though a lot of things have changed (in my work & community life) … I’d like to introduce you to two things today, once in a conventional way and how Powershell could configure SQL Server…
Many services in Azure allow certain cost savings through automation, this can also be achieved with the Platform-as-a-Service “Azure SQL Database”, this is what this blog post is all about. Quite as simple as e.g. with the Azure Analysis Service it is not because actually there is no pause-resume functionality – here comes the backup…
