Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, ...

This is a bash script that can be used for backing up GCP Cloud SQL instances. It works by restoring an existing GCP managed backup to a new ephemeral db instance, and exporting an SQL dump from there ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...

This repository illustrates how to share sample data and auto-build release assets. The sample data in this repository is in the CSV format and is auto-built to assets appropriate for the SQL platform ...

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I have a SQL server that is freezing IO on all DBs 6 times per day at about 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm, 6pm, and 10pm. These only freeze IO for approximately 2 seconds each time, but it is long enough that ...