In one of my recent consultation visits to a customer, there was deep performance related problems. They were unclear to what was happening and what was the actual problem. But these are some of the challenges that I love to take head-on too. In this quest to learn what the problem would be, I used a number of tools and during that time I figured out it was a memory pressure that was creating the problem. Let us learn about SQL Server Paging of Memory Identification.
SQL SERVER – Setting Firewall Settings With Azure SQL Server VMs
Recently I had a session around using SQL Server on Azure and during this session one of the questions was to access the SQL Server in a Hybrid Setup. This is a typical scenario wherein the developer was requesting to connect to the SQL Server running on a VM from his application that was sitting inside his environment. Though there were specific steps that needed to be taken, he was getting some error. Let us learn about how to setup firewall with Azure SQL Server VMs.
Pester the Tester: PowerShell Bugs, Beware! – Notes from the Field #129
[Note from Pinal]: In this episode of the Notes from the Field series database expert Robert Cain explains about Pester which is a bug testing framework for Powershell. I know Robert from last many years. Besides his amazing credentials of MVP, MCTS, Published Author and he is an amazing person to hang out with. I have seen him speaking at many prestigious events like PASS Summit, TechEd and every single time I learn something related to technology.
PowerShell – Querying SQL Server From Command Line
PowerShell is quite an interesting capability that is added as part of Windows. I wonder how many of us really appreciate the power of this tool being out of the box. The more I see it being used in customer locations, the more I get intrigued by what it can do. Let us learn about Querying SQL Server From Command Line via powershell.
PowerShell – Backup SQL Server System Databases
I have been lately writing on powershell and didn’t know there are many more scenarios that can be enabled. I was traveling for a consulting assignment over the weekend for a customer location. Though this exercise was around performance tuning their systems, it was amazing to see that they had some of the basics not done either. In this blog we will be discussing about how to backup SQL Server System Databases.
PowerShell Script – Backup Every Database In SQL Server
Using scripts can be a powerful way to automate things that a GUI will fail in many cases. I was working with a client who wanted to write a PowerShell script that would help him automate his backups. This is a pretty simple requirement that can be easily achieved using SMO as shown below in my scripts. I have been using these scripts for a number of years at various places. Let us see how we can backup every database in SQL Server
SQL SERVER – InMemory OLTP Migration Assistant Powershell Script
In one of my recent interaction with my client, they were so much impressed with the fact that SQL Server has now introduced the ability to use In Memory OLTP. They said they were interested in implementing the same in their environment for a number of applications. The hardware refresh was due and they were also upgrading a number of their legacy applications which were hosted on SQL Server 2005 to the latest version as that was also due. In this blog post we will learn about InMemory OLTP Migration Assistant.