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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…
After my first contribution – Preparing to use Desired State Configuration (DSC) – you can now take the first steps to install a SQL Server. So what do we need for prerequisites for installing a SQL Server on a new Windows Server? To my test environment … I’m using a development environment in Azure consisting…
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…
T-SQL Tuesday is a recurring blog series started by Adam Machanic (b | t), a blogger hosts a SQL Server topic every month, and anyone can write a blog post on this particular topic. This month, Ewald Cress (b | t) is our host and it’s about the people who have influenced us in our lives with…
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…
You can think of what you want, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow… usually I’m an advocate of SQL Server’s own backup, whether it’s done to disk or to URL or even to network share, but here I had to give in and set up the backup using 3rd party tools….
