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This post will delve deeper into how I tailored my Desired State Configuration scripts to facilitate the copy and preparation processes for my Desired State Configuration (DSC) SQL Server rollout. Following the initial two blog posts where I discussed the preparations and fundamentals of the deployment, today I’ll walk you through the actual installation as…
Two years ago, I first dealt with Desired State Configuration (DSC) to create a demo for SQL Saturday #605 that continually monitors and eventually corrects the configuration of the SQL server. Now I have another lovely customer project, where I have the choice between complete implementation in Powershell (via dbatools) or just a little DSC…
I hadn’t been writing this Powershell series for a long time, and I’d like to make up for it, even though a lot of things have changed (in my work & community life) … I’d like to introduce you to two things today, once in a conventional way and how Powershell could configure SQL Server…
Many services in Azure allow certain cost savings through automation, this can also be achieved with the Platform-as-a-Service “Azure SQL Database”, this is what this blog post is all about. Quite as simple as e.g. with the Azure Analysis Service it is not because actually there is no pause-resume functionality – here comes the backup…
In the first part of my Azure SQL Database Powershell Automation series I showed how to create the resource group, the logical SQL Server and the corresponding database, I would like to show you how to implement a resize of the performance level of this database. Why should I want to resize a database? Upwards…
In addition to the ability to deploy a virtual server on a SQL server in Azure, there is also the “simpler” method to deploy only one database on demand => the Azure SQL Database. This database-as-a-service is also very good and easy to use for a variety of applications, although there are a lot of…
