Ever wanted to automatically convert dates to zodiacs? Here is a fascinatingly simple script that can do it for you, both in English and German:...
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Composing Dates from a DateTime
Here is a simple and generic way to turn DateTime information into just the ISO string data components you require. For example, if you just need...
Announcing the General Availability of IDERA SQL SAFE Backup 9.2
Introducing IDERA SQL SAFE Backup 9.2: The Latest Release of Our Leading SQL Server Backup Solution IDERA SQL Safe Backup is a comprehensive...
Macros – Shortcuts: a macro to rule them all
In this post, I’ll share a script which lets you add shortcuts to macros that you may want to quickly access from various places in…
Migrating SQL Server to Azure SQL Database
Migrating SQL Server to Azure SQL Database provides essential benefits. Such advantages include the following: lower cost by shifting expenses from...
PowerShell Script Won’t Run Without Confirmation
When you right-click any PowerShell Script in Windows, the context menu sports the command “Run with PowerShell”. However, when you do, you may see...
Choosing Best File Format (Part 4)
In the previous parts, we reviewed different file types to persist data and cmdlets to read and write them. Today, let’s apply this to a real-world...
Choosing Best File Format (Part 3)
Publishing on – Thur June 22 PowerShell supports a wide variety of text file formats, so what’s the best way to save and read data? In the first two...
Choosing Best File Format (Part 2)
PowerShell supports a wide variety of text file formats, so what’s the best way to save and read data? This largely depends on the type of data, so...
Choosing Best File Format (Part 1)
PowerShell supports a wide variety of text file formats, so what’s the best way to save and read data? This largely depends on the type of data, so...
Deploy and manage complex Azure environments
The data management professionals of today are finding their landscape changing. They have multiple database platforms to manage and need to control...
How to Maintain Security Compliance to Prevent a Costly Breach
As businesses and government organizations shift a growing amount of their operations online, data security has become an increasingly important...
Visually compare data in MySQL
As with any database, there are many ways to compare the data within a MySQL database. We can compare data for: Accuracy: If we entered the data...
Learn more about database migrations
Many information technology professionals may not recognize it, but the bulk of their work has been and continues to be nothing more than database...
Monitor top metrics in MySQL databases
How MySQL databases perform can affect your organization. For example, if your site takes too long to load or has too many server errors, it can...
Tips for data warehouses and other extensive databases
Whether on-premises or in the cloud, organizations often ask database administrators to create and manage optimal database designs for data...
DBTA 100 2023: The Companies That Matter Most in Data
The need to balance data safety with new data initiatives, deliver business value, and change company culture around data tops this year’s list of...
Become a SQL Server Management Studio Hero
The world is full of exciting challenges, and we are constantly running daily, chasing our dreams. Especially in the software ecosystem, it is not...
Synchronize MySQL data
Lost your work because you forgot to back it up? Having your database developers do a mountain of work in a short time frame is not the best way to...
Work with and support multiple database platforms
In the ever-changing world of technology, we sometimes inherit environments with multiple database platforms and must continue to manage them. This...
Test-Driving PowerShellGet Version 3
PowerShellGet is a module and contains important cmdlets such as Install-Module, so this module is really the prerequisite for downloading and...
How did the database administrator role change in 2022?
Organizations are experiencing the effects of rapid technological advancement across every sector and industry, causing them to rely on secure and...
SpeculationControl: Use PowerShell to Check for Risks
Microsoft released a module a couple of years ago (updated 3 weeks ago) that you can use to identify whether your hardware is vulnerable against...
Getting Parent Culture
Most of the time, localized resources are tagged with a culture name such as “en-us” or “de-de”. If you’d like to know what such an ID stands for,...