Yesterday I was able to give my speech as part of DataSaturday #6 in Malta. It was about changes in the life of a DBA when he is confronted with the fact that his SQL servers and/or databases should be migrated to the Microsoft Cloud Azure. With this session, I wanted to minimize the fears…
Now I had to fight with a previously unknown “login not possible” problem: Error: 17832, Severity: 20, State: 8 on a SQL Server 2008 R2. Also, the error message in the SQL server log I had not seen so far, let alone heard of it. The login packet used to open the connection is structurally…
In the last week, I installed several SQL Servers for one customer and had to install and configure them all identically. What is closer here than to do this with a Powershell script, so I made the “effort” and the individual steps of the SQL Server configuration with dbatools to realize. I do not want…
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…
