Script Download: The script with usage example is available for download from https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Deploy-Azure-SQL-DR-47dfa7f7 Summary: Use PowerShell to create cloud DR environment using Azure SQL Databases (PaaS) and send Email Report with the connection string details   Description: Use PowerShell to deploy cloud service with Azure SQL Database (PaaS) with good resilience to outages (GEO Replications, Failover Groups) PowerShell: Connect to Azure Account, Use existing or create new Resource Group, Create primary...

If you are using Azure SQL Database with geo-replication or auto failover group and if you are using logins and users rather than contained users you can end up with the following error when you try to connect to the secondary/failover database after failover occured.   If you already created a login on the failover server using SQL command -- ====================================================================================== -- Create SQL Login template for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse Database --...

We had one customer who was moving his Azure SQL Database from Elastic Pool to Standalone Database. At the same time, he wanted to change database name as well. Azure database was part of an existing failover group (two elastic pools) and geo-replicated to the new future Azure SQL Server. Changing the database name is not allowed if the database is part of the replication   If the database is not part of replication we can use two different approaches to rename it, using: SQL Server Management Studio or Transact-SQL Note: This refers...

During deployment of Azure SQL Server in Canada East location (new Azure Subscription) I got the following error: Using Azure Portal   Using Powershell   At the same time if I list all available azure location for the current subscription I can see that Canada East is there Get-AzureRmLocation | select displayname   The reason is that Canada East region is not activated for my new Azure Subscription. To resolve this issue just contact the Azure support to have this enabled for you. You can do this for free using support page on...

Creating a new and altering existing indexes on the big tables can be time-consuming. There is a simple way to see the progress of the CREATE / ALTER INDEX command. Since SQL Server 2014 we can use sys.dm_exec_query_profiles DMV to monitor real-time query progress. sys.dm_exec_query_profiles (SQL SERVER 2014 and above) “Monitors real-time query progress while the query is in execution. For example, use this DMV to determine which part of the query is running slow. Join this DMV with other system DMVs using the columns identified in the...

Recently I had an issue with a database backup PowerShell script one of our customer using. The script was working fine until trying to do a backup of the large database. During backup attempts script starts failing with the following error: Exception calling "SqlBackup" with "1" argument(s): "Backup failed for Server 'ServerName'. " At line:67 char:1 + $dbBackup.SqlBackup($s) + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : FailedOperationException Exception calling...

SQL SERVER 2019 Update Version: MSSQL 2019 BETA (CTP2.2), Build: 15.0.1200.24, Release Date: December 2018, Download: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/sql-server-ver15-release-notes?view=sqlallproducts-allversions; Update Version: MSSQL 2019 BETA (CTP2.1), Build: 15.0.1100.94, Release Date: November 2018, Download: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/sql-server-ver15-release-notes?view=sqlallproducts-allversions#ctp-21-october-2018; Update Version: MSSQL 2019 BETA (CTP2.0), Build: 15.0.1000.34, Release Date:...

In one of my previous posts, I show you how to use PowerShell to manage your SQL Server database backups and how to install the SQL Server PowerShell module. To be able to manage SQL Server Database Backups you will need to load Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended assembly. If not you can end up with the following error. PS>TerminatingError(New-Object): “Cannot find type [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Backup]: verify that the assembly containing this type is loaded.” new-object : Cannot find type...

Some user complained that they cannot use my PowerShell script published on TechNet https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Use-PowerShell-to-Backup-3bb0a397 It is a PowerShell script to Backup all user databases to Azure Storage. They experienced the following error: 8/14/2018 11:18 AM – Setting Folders PS>TerminatingError(New-Object): “Cannot find type [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server]: verify that the assembly containing this type is loaded.” new-object : Cannot find type...

This is an example of missing index query (DMV) of the database within email alert, we already had examples how you can use sp_send_dbmail stored procedure from msdb database to send backup size email daily,  long-running queries report and how to send missing indexes (Cached Plans) report via email. This is just another use case of sp_send_dbmail stored procedure. I used following arguments to achieve this @profile_name (name of an existing Database Mail profile, type sysname, default NULL), If you are not sure about your profile account use...