This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Ewald Cress ( blog | twitter ) and is all about “folks who have made a difference” in our careers. Thank you, Ewald! This is a great topic! Here is my short list Paulo Silva ( in ) He was my first boss in the IT world! I was his apprentice when I started my internship. He was going to move to a manager position and I had to continue his work.

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Before I complete my question let me provide context. I’ve received an alert saying that a specific database could not allocate a new page (disk was full) The message that you will see on the SQL Server Error log is: Could not allocate a new page for database ’’ because of insufficient disk space in filegroup ‘’. Create the necessary space by dropping objects in the filegroup, adding additional files to the filegroup, or setting autogrowth on for existing files in the filegroup.

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This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by my good friend Rob Sewell ( b | t ). Together “Let’s get all Posh – What are you going to automate today?” I have written some blog posts on how I use PowerShell to automate mundane tasks or some other more complex scenarios like: Find and fix SQL Server databases with empty owner property using dbatools PowerShell module or Have you backed up your SQL Logins today?

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I was using open source PowerShell module dbatools ( GitHub repository ) to get the list of SQL Server services I have on a bunch of hosts so I could confirm if they are in “running” state. – Quick note – For those who don’t know, dbatools is a module, written by the community, that makes SQL Server administration much easier using PowerShell. Today, the module has more than 260 commands.

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On my day to day work I use Nagios monitoring software. I want to add some custom SQL Server scripts to enrich the monitoring, and to accomplish this I will need to: Find a folder Create a sub folder Copy bunch of file edit a ini file to verify/add new entries all of this for every single host on my entire estate. Obviously (for me :-) ) I decided to use PowerShell!

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Cláudio Silva

Data Platform Architect and PowerShell lover.

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