In the previous tip we showed how you can use the PowerShell command mode to easily create lists of quoted strings. This can be really useful for...
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Replication Performance Enhancements in MySQL 8
Although it feels like it was only yesterday that Oracle released version 5.7 of their acclaimed MySQL Community Server, version 8 is already...
Efficiently Produce Comma-Separated Strings
Here is a super simple approach to create a list of quoted strings: & { "'$($args -join "','")'" } hello this is a test Here is the result:...
Using a Grid View Window as a Selection Dialog (Part 2)
In the previous tip we explained how you can use a hash table to show simple selection dialogs, yet when the user selects an item, return full rich...
How to get alert notifications through SMS
In a number of our products, such as SQL Diagnostic Manager and SQL Safe Backup, there exists a means to configure alert...
IDERA Helps You Face the Challenges of Implementing GDPR
As many companies are coming to realize, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) issued by the EU, which takes effect in May 2018, has a lot...
Using a Grid View Window as a Selection Dialog (Part 1)
How can a grid view window be used as a simple selection dialog? When you pipe objects to a grid view window, all object properties are shown. Often...
Creating and Using Failover Groups in Azure DBaaS – Part 2
Connecting to Failover Group So in Part 1 of this series, we created and configured our Failover Group. Well, now that the easy stuff is out of the...
Creating and Using Failover Groups in Azure DBaaS – Part 1
Introduction Hello everybody! One of my favorite features in Azure SQL DBaaS is Failover Groups. I have been working with these since they...
Configuring TempDB on Azure IaaS for SQL Server
Hey everybody! I am asked by clients/team members/friends a lot about how to setup TEMPDB to use the D:\ drive on an Azure VM for SQL Server. ...
Using QPI to identify high data usage in Elastic Pool
So I recently began working on a project for a client that wanted to move from a Premium Elastic Pool to a Standard Elastic Pool due to the...
February #SQLChat – Becoming a Microsoft MVP
Are you hoping to become a Microsoft MVP? Or, have you already gone through the application process yourself? Then participate in our next Twitter...
Removing User Profiles Via Dialog (Part 2)
In the previous tip we illustrated how a grid view window can display all available user profiles, lets you select one, and deletes it: #requires...
Alert Burnout
Do you routinely ignore alerts? If you have an email rule that sends alerts to their own folder, that is a hint. If you find that a day...
Remove User Profiles Via Dialog
We’ve received massive feedback on our tips dealing with user profile management, so we decided to add a couple of additional tips. In the...
Find User Profiles
We’ve received massive feedback on our tips dealing with user profile management, so we decided to add a couple of additional tips. Typically,...
List User Profiles
We've received a massive feedback on our tips dealing with user profile management, so we decided to add a couple of additional tips. WMI can...
Top 10 things to know about Alibaba Cloud RDS
Cloud-based Relational Database Services (RDS) offer businesses a variety of traditional Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) with several...
Understanding and Avoiding Double-Hop
When a script is executed remotely, you can run into “Access Denied” issues that often are related to the double-hop issue. Here is an...
Using Group-Object to Separate Remoting Results
When you need to get information from multiple computers via PowerShell remoting, you could query each machine separately. A much faster way is to...
New Discovery and Tuning Suite Now Available
We are pleased to announce the availability of a new suite of performance products packaged to fill the core needs of most SQL Server DBAs....
National Rubber Ducky Day 2018!
Our favorite holiday is almost here! National Rubber Ducky Day is Saturday, January 13. To help celebrate this holiday we are sending you our newest...
Converting Numeric Strings
Converting a string that contains a number is trivial in PowerShell: PS C:\> [double]"77.234" 77,234 PS C:\> If the string contains...
How to monitor tempdb databases
Introduction The tempdb system database is a workspace used to hold temporary user objects, results created through queries and sorts, and other...