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  • New Encryption and Certificate Defaults in Microsoft's SQL Server Connection Provider

    Mar 5, 2023 · 5 min read  ·
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    Note: This blog post is going to borrow a bit from Microsoft's official documentation in "Connect with Azure Data Studio" and from our book, Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches. It also addresses dbatools 2.0, which is currently in pre-release. Microsoft recently made some changes to the default encryption …


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  • What's new and different in dbatools 2.0

    Mar 5, 2023 · 5 min read  ·
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    So much is new and different! If you'd like to try it while you read this blog post, you can currently install dbatools-preview2 by executing the following command: 1Install-Module dbatools -AllowPrerelease Requirements dbatools still works on PowerShell v3 an v4! Thanks to Microsoft for making that possible with SMO. …


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  • Don't waste your time with ($PSEdition -eq 'Core') in your PowerShell module manifest/psd1

    Mar 4, 2023 · 4 min read  ·
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    I cannot believe my eyes. I imagine some PowerShellers will disagree with me but when developing modules that support older versions of PowerShell, I refuse to even try to support Core vs Desktop in my module manifest. I imagine this will be the case for the next decade or two. I've been working on dbatools 2.0 for a …


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  • Exploring faster PowerShell import times.. again

    Mar 4, 2023 · 5 min read  ·
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    I've been trying for years to get dbatools to import faster. There's a lot of plain-text code to import and even more help. Binary modules like Microsoft's SqlServer module benefit from prior compilation and can be imported in like 500-900ms whereas dbatools generally takes 2-5 seconds. I've written about module …


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  • You just joined Mastodon, now what?

    Nov 28, 2022 · 3 min read  ·
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    When I first joined Mastodon, I was excited to learn that fedifinder and debirdify can help find my Twitter friends on Mastodon. Both are web-based tools that search your follows and/or followers on Twitter for possible Mastodon accounts, then export the results to a CSV file. First thing I'd recommend doing? Find your …


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  • Using GitHub Pages to Setup an Alias on Mastodon

    Nov 21, 2022 · 3 min read  ·
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    After moving from Twitter to Mastodon, I wrote a blog post about how aliases can help us keep a consistent social media presence even if we change servers. This means that even though dbatools is currently using the fosstodon.org server as [email protected], I'll be linking [email protected] on all of our …


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  • Aliases on Mastodon: Add me! I'm also [email protected]

    Nov 20, 2022 · 4 min read  ·
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    Just recently, I was presenting at a conference and when I got to the intro slide, I realized how weird it is that Twitter will no longer be a part of that. I used to dedicate a whole slide saying "Find me on Twitter, I'm @cl" and now ¯\(ツ)/¯. Thing is, I found a server I like so far but what if I move? What …


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  • Moving to Mastodon: I actually like it better (Updated!)

    Nov 18, 2022 · 7 min read  ·
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    Mastodon feels like the 2007 Internet -- it's exciting and hasn't been plagued by SEO-gaming websites and "a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four." Initially, I was pretty gutted by the sale of Twitter but now I see that what I was afraid of losing connections …


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  • Docker on GitHub Actions macOS Runners (2022)

    Nov 17, 2022 · 2 min read  ·
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    One of my GitHub Actions, mssqlsuite makes it ultra easy to install SQL Server on Linux, Windows and macOS runners. When working on the macOS portion, I was surprised that docker was not built-in. Turns out, GitHub had to remove docker from the macOS images because of licensing issues. Workarounds One of the most …


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  • Signing Windows Software with GitHub Actions, Encrypted Secrets and PowerShell

    Jun 20, 2022 · 12 min read  ·
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    Code signing your scripts, modules and applications can help increase enterprise adoption, as large organizations often prohibit running unsigned tools on Windows. Signed code allows machines to verify that what they're running hasn't been altered or compromised by a third party, which ultimately increases their …


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Chrissy LeMaire

SQL & PowerShell MVP. GitHub Star. Creator of dbatools. Need to oil my knees.

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  • New Encryption and Certificate Defaults in Microsoft's SQL Server Connection Provider
  • What's new and different in dbatools 2.0
  • Don't waste your time with ($PSEdition -eq 'Core') in your PowerShell module manifest/psd1
  • Exploring faster PowerShell import times.. again
  • You just joined Mastodon, now what?
  • Using GitHub Pages to Setup an Alias on Mastodon
  • Aliases on Mastodon: Add me! I'm also [email protected]
  • Moving to Mastodon: I actually like it better (Updated!)

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