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Author: Derik Hammer

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  • DING – LEVEL 2 !!!

    DING – LEVEL 2 !!!

    December 17, 2014

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    Derik Hammer

    DING – LEVEL 2 !!! I am excited to announce that I have achieved level 2 in My Epic Life Quest. My epic life…

  • Start and Save Hyper-V VMs with PowerShell

    December 10, 2014

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    Derik Hammer

    I use Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 R2 on most of my local workstations between home and work. In order to conserve memory,…

  • Availability Group fail-over test with PowerShell

    Availability Group fail-over test with PowerShell

    December 3, 2014

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    Derik Hammer

    I have a number of SQL Server Availability Groups in my organization. Of them, most are multi-site configurations for disaster recovery. Naturally, the latency…

  • Connecting to an Availability Group Listener with SQL Server Management Studio

    Connecting to an Availability Group Listener with SQL Server Management Studio

    November 26, 2014

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    Derik Hammer

    Background When a cluster has an Availability Group installed on it, there is an optional listener which is used to manage connections through fail-over events.…

  • How to change the schema of a table

    How to change the schema of a table

    November 19, 2014

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    Derik Hammer

    The other day I set out to performance tune a database deployment. The company was getting ready to implement almost a year’s worth of…

  • A first timer’s lessons learned at PASS Summit 2014

    November 12, 2014

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    Derik Hammer

    Me, as a #sqlfirsttimer Just one year ago I didn’t know what the PASS Summit was. What came after has been a series of serendipitous events. I…

  • Query Central Management Server with PowerShell SMO

    Query Central Management Server with PowerShell SMO

    November 5, 2014

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    Derik Hammer

    All production or operational DBAs need to maintain a server / instance list. SQL Server’s Central Management Server (CMS) is a great means of managing that…

  • Rebooting HRSSUG

    October 29, 2014

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    Derik Hammer

    This week I’m excited to announce the reboot of the Hampton Roads SQL Server User Group (HRSSUG). We will be coming back online this…

  • Backup testing with PowerShell

    October 22, 2014

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    Derik Hammer

    This week I released a two part blog series on SQLShack.com. The series covers automated testing for your backup files and reporting on the results.…

  • Dynamically create table results from non-query

    Dynamically create table results from non-query

    October 16, 2014

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    Derik Hammer

    Have you ever executed a command with a result set but you didn’t know the exact schema being returned? Have you ever wanted to…

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