Is this command broken? I can’t see some properties! – DefaultDisplayPropertySet, Get-Member and Select-Object *

~ Cláudio Silva ~ 1 Comment

Every now and again I see some people complaining about not getting the properties they want when using a PowerShell command. For instance, someone was using the Get-Service command to query what was the "Startup Type" of WinRM service. For that the person used the following command: which produces the following output: As you can … Continue reading Is this command broken? I can’t see some properties! – DefaultDisplayPropertySet, Get-Member and Select-Object *

Did you know…you can’t do arithmetic operations with datetime2 like with datetime?

~ Cláudio Silva ~ 3 Comments

I’m currently working on a SQL code migration from Firebird to SQL Server and I hit an error that I haven’t seen for some time. The error message is the following: Msg 206, Level 16, State 2, Line 4 Operand type clash: datetime2 is incompatible with int This ringed the bell right away! Somewhere on … Continue reading Did you know…you can’t do arithmetic operations with datetime2 like with datetime?

dbachecks – A different approach for an in-progress and incremental validation

~ Cláudio Silva ~ 1 Comment

dbachecks is a new PowerShell module from the SQL Server Community! For more information, read introducing dbachecks. If you don't know dbachecks, we have released a good amount of blog posts that will help you: Announcing dbachecks – Configurable PowerShell Validation For Your SQL Instances by Rob Sewell introducing dbachecks - a new module from … Continue reading dbachecks – A different approach for an in-progress and incremental validation

dbachecks – Using Power BI dashboards to analyse results

~ Cláudio Silva ~ 9 Comments

For the last couple of months, members of the dbatools team have been working on a new PowerShell module called dbachecks. This open source PowerShell module will enable you to validate your SQL Instances. Today it is released for you all to start to use 🙂 dbachecks launch - the blog posts series Here you … Continue reading dbachecks – Using Power BI dashboards to analyse results

Using dbatools to verify your SQL Server instances version compliance

~ Cláudio Silva ~ 3 Comments

One of the main DBA's duties is to guarantee that SQL Server instances are up-to-date in terms of patches (Service Packs, Cumulative Updates or Security Updates). Recently, dbatools added a new command that turns this validation a piece of cake. Thanks to Simone Bizzotto (@niphlod) for baking up the command that Shawn Melton (@wsmelton) and … Continue reading Using dbatools to verify your SQL Server instances version compliance

New version of sp_WhoIsActive (v11.20) is available – Deployed on 123 instances in less than 1 minute

~ Cláudio Silva ~ 2 Comments

Last night, I received Adam Machanic's (b | t) newsletter "Announcing sp_whoisactive v11.20: Live Query Plans". For those who don't know about it, sp_WhoIsActive is a stored procedure that provides detailed information about the sessions running on your SQL Server instance. It is a great tool when we need to troubleshoot some problems such as … Continue reading New version of sp_WhoIsActive (v11.20) is available – Deployed on 123 instances in less than 1 minute