SQL, PowerShell, and more from a SQL Server DBA
This article was initially posted on SQLServerCentral @ 2020-08-18. It was interesting some comments I read about it, mainly why people still use WITH ENCRYPTION when it's simple to overcome this when we have the right permissions. SQL Server offers an option to encrypt the code of your modules when using the WITH ENCRYPTION syntax. … Continue reading Recover database encrypted modules code with dbatools
This was initial posted on SQL Server Central articles. As one of dbatools' first members, I've been using it for years and it's really my goto tool. This task was no different! Today's tip and trick using dbatools is about generating an Excel workbook that contains lists of SQL Server roles and its members. The … Continue reading Generate SQL Server Role Member Reports using dbatools and ImportExcel PowerShell modules
The idea of this blog post, like many others I write, is to document a workaround solution to my problem. Hopefully I can also help someone that may be looking for the solution for this problem and stumbles accidentally (or not) on my blog. Scenario I was helping a colleague automating the creation of emails … Continue reading Change Outlook sender mailbox with PowerShell – A workaround
There are some actions that we know that will have to be repeated from time to time, but the surprise comes when it’s time to do so and the process that used to work does not work anymore. This is a short post to document a slight change that I had to do to achieve … Continue reading Temporarily enable TLS 1.0/1.1? – Be sure you check this keys
