How to Automatically Validate SQL Server Backups With Test-DbaLastBackup (Dbatools)

How to Automatically Validate SQL Server Backups With Test-DbaLastBackup

In this blog post, we will audit the dbatools command Test-DbaLastBackup. I will test, review, and evaluate the script based on a series of identical steps. Our goal is to provide insights, warnings, and recommendations to help you use this script effectively and safely. Test-DbaLastBackup is a powerful tool to automate the validation of a … Read more

Accelerated Database Recovery in SQL Server 2025

Accelerated Database Recovery in SQL Server 2025

Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) was introduced in SQL Server 2019. Its main purpose is to allow for faster database recovery in the event of a crash or unexpected shutdown. Traditionally, the database engine handles crash recovery through a series of phases—analysis, redo, and undo—which can be inefficient and slow, especially when dealing with long-running transactions. … Read more

How to Restore a SQL Server Database Using dbatools Restore-DbaDatabase

How to Restore a SQL Server Database Using dbatools Restore-DbaDatabase

In this blog post, we will audit the dbatools command Restore-DbaDatabase. I will test, review, and evaluate the script based on a series of identical steps. Our goal is to provide insights, warnings, and recommendations to help you use this script effectively and safely. Restore-DbaDatabase is powerful tool to automate the restore of any database, … Read more

Standardize SQL Server Maintenance Quickly and Easily Using Install-DbaMaintenanceSolution

SQL Server maintenance tools - DbaMaintenanceSolution

Introduction In this blog post, we will audit the dbatools command Install-DbaMaintenanceSolution. I will test, review, and evaluate the script based on a series of identical steps. Our goal is to provide insights, warnings, and recommendations to help you use this script effectively and safely Install-DbaMaintenanceSolution is the key to simple, reliable, and comprehensive SQL … Read more

Introducing sp_CheckTempdb: Check Your SQL Server tempdb for Performance Issues

Free SQL Server DBA tool - sp_CheckTempdb

Most database folks might know the tempdb database in SQL Server is used for temporary tables, but many folks don’t realize all the other things that use this critical system database. It’s also used by table variables, cursors, aggregations, joins, and sorts. And by memory spills when you don’t have enough memory. And by integrity … Read more

Why Invoke-DbaQuery Is My Most-Used dbatools Query

DBA Toolbox

In this blog post, we will audit the dbatools command Invoke-DbaQuery. I will test, review, and evaluate the script based on a series of identical steps. Our goal is to provide insights, warnings, and recommendations to help you use this script effectively and safely. Invoke-DbaQuery is the Swiss army knife of all dbatools commands as … Read more

Bizarre Love Triangle (Sysadmins, AV tools and DBAs)

“Every time I think of you, I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue…” – If your SQL Servers (and especially your SQL Server Availability Groups and Failover Cluster instances) could speak – that’s what they’d say about the times your security and sysadmin teams deploy a new AV tool without talking to … Read more