DBA Unfiltered

  • Technician connecting power and input AC power cables in workshop

    DBAOps Pt.2: Connecting A GitHub Repository To Azure DevOps

    In the last post, we covered setting up an AzDO organization and project that is going to support us in achieving the end goal of building a fully functional AzDO pipeline that will handle SQL Patching for an AG. Next up: Creating a GitHub repository and connecting it to our AzDO environment so we can…

    Jordan Boich
  • Server applying automatic software patches with network monitoring and threat detection

    How I Use Python To Automatically Download And Stage SQL Server CUs And GDRs

    Patching is such an important part of ensuring your MS SQL Servers are secure, reliable, and resilient. As important as it is, it’s still a tedious process. You have to chronically check for patches (hopefully you don’t have your servers running SQL to auto download and apply patches via Windows Update), look at breaking changes…

    Jordan Boich