I like to keep a close eye on my servers and users/customers. However, not want to do everything manually. This is not only very time consuming, but also most likely to find important issues rather late, hence the script below.
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Executing SQL Statements using PowerShell
The SQL Server SMO client API can be used query and alter settings and objects within your SQL Server instances. In case you want to query your user database; you will run into some limitations. The client API isn’t aware of your data objects and, therefore, not exposing a typed scheme. Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to accomplish when using the SQL Server PowerShell Module (SQLPS)
Scripting SQL Server installations
I was addressing performance issues onsite just a couple of weeks ago. While waiting for the right authorizations, access tokens, and whatever you need nowadays just to run some scripts…, one of the developers approached me. They asked for some insights on how to Scripting SQL Server installations.
SQL Database Integrity Reports
Validating database integrity regularly is a fundamental task that is often forgotten by the accidental DBA. Fortunately, SQL Server database corruption issues aren’t common. Finding out that you have been backing up a corrupt database for weeks might be somewhat hard to explain to the business.
Move Azure VMs between datacenters
Recently I had to move a couple of Windows Azures Virtual Machines from West Europe to Southeast Asia. This process wasn’t as easy as expected, so therefore I’m sharing the steps on how to move a Virtual Machine to a different data center.
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