Aha effect when setting SQL instance parameters with dbatools

Aha effect when setting SQL instance parameters with dbatools

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…

Desired State Configuration # 2 – Getting Started with SQL Server Installation

Desired State Configuration # 2 – Getting Started with SQL Server Installation

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…

Desired State Configuration – Simplify your SQL Server Administration with DSC
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Desired State Configuration – Simplify your SQL Server Administration with DSC

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…

#4 SQL Server Configuration – implement Best Practices
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#4 SQL Server Configuration – implement Best Practices

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…

Pause / Resume / Backup an Azure SQL Database with Powershell – Part 3
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Pause / Resume / Backup an Azure SQL Database with Powershell – Part 3

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…

Resize an Azure SQL Database with Powershell – Part 2
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Resize an Azure SQL Database with Powershell – Part 2

In the first part of my Azure SQL Database Powershell Automation series I showed how to create the resource group, the logical SQL Server and the corresponding database, I would like to show you how to implement a resize of the performance level of this database. Why should I want to resize a database? Upwards…