SQL Server: Visualize Your Backups For Insights – By Month Day, Time etc.

Backups are a very important part of a DBA's job. Understanding when they have happened and when they have not happened is even more important. Quantifying things quickly can mean the difference between good and bad decisions when you are in a bind. Note: If you are looking to do something similar with Oracle, please …

PowerShell: Get Security Updates List From Microsoft By Month/Product/KB/CVE With API

I am a regular at my local PowerShell user group. I keenly look forward to our monthly meetings. We share a lot amongst ourselves. It is a small but close-knit group. Recently, one of the members, Julie came up with a coding challenge for the group. This blog post is about the challenge. My solution …

SQL Server – Generate and Use Size / Storage Dimension

This post shows how I created, generated data for and used "StorageDimension" with PowerBI to slice and dice by that dimension.