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Customizing Remove-DbaBackup from dbatools

Howdy!

As a matter fact, it is not new that dbatools is a great PowerShell module for the SQL Server DBA, and from time to time they come up with new functions that for me I just think: Why I never thought about it before?

Today I want to talk about the function Remove-DbaBackup and more specifically my customized version of it. No, I didn’t rewrite Remove-DbaBackup but rather improved to my environment. The function by itself is just great and it addresses the goal of removing the backups nicely, but at the end, the function was not doing something that I wanted. Read the rest of this entry

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Do you want to improve SQL Server Docs?

I think many of us have not heard this, but recently (maybe not that recently) Microsoft made the SQL Server Docs available on GitHub under this link: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/sql-docs

Currently, if you navigate to any SQL Server Documentation and let’s say that you right now goes to this link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/availability-groups/windows/overview-of-always-on-availability-groups-sql-server in the right hand side of the window you will see this… Read the rest of this entry