How-to : Use SQL Server to query Active Directory
I think it’s common problem as Active Directory gets bigger in organizations, control over content of that mission-critical component seems to be lost. Same happened in my place. In addition to that we...
View ArticleCode snippets : SQL : Backup and FTP Database
When browsing repository of all scripts I did use in past, I found one which might be interesting. What this script does is: Backups database to disk (name of database stored in @dbname, patch for...
View ArticleTips & Tricks : Microsoft SQL Server 2008 & 2012 Feature Packs
Some of applications require additional SQL Server 2008 or 2012 fetures installed. Some of these features might not be available in standard setup of SQL Server. In that case you have to refer to...
View ArticleTips & Tricks : SQL Server “Cannot connect to WMI provider”
Recently I had issue which occured without any particular reason on SQL Server 2012. All of the sudden I start getting error message: Cannot connect to WMI provider. You do not have permission or the...
View ArticleTips & Tricks : Missing SQL Server assmeblies in PowerShell
When you try to connect to SQL Server from PowerShell script and you get following message: then you have to download and install following components: Microsoft System CLR Types for SQL Server 2008 R2...
View ArticleCode snippets : Execute SQL script using PowerShell
Recently I went through requirement of running SQL scripts on multiple databases on different servers. As the list of databases was different from script to script I decided to create universal...
View ArticleHow-to : Setup AlwaysOn Availability Group on SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 has very nice HADR technology built-in, AlwaysOn Availability Groups. It allows to have multiple replicas of selected databases across multiple servers, which can be even located across...
View ArticleCode snippets : Windows : Importing Event Logs to Database
Code snippet from old archives. It shows how to import Windows event log entries to database. Important is to setup database and table accordingly, so it contains apropriate columns.
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