The Microsoft Clustering and High Availablity bloggers have taken noticed of the Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) utility from a cluster management perspective. I’ve previously blogged about Building A Remote Desktop Manager Connection List from the SQL Server Central Management Server (CMS) tables. The RDCMan use case for cluster administration… Read more

My thanks to everyone in attendence and PASS AppDev VC for inviting me to speak. I’ll post a link to the video as soon as its available. Video is available here. Feel free to post questions or comments. The presentation and supporting materials for the Powershell ETL session… Read more

On Tuesday June 22nd 9 PM Eastern I”m presenting ETL with PowerShell for PASS AppDev VC—a virtual chapter of Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS). In this presentation we will look at performing common data loading tasks with Powershell. A basic understanding of PowerShell is helpful, but not… Read more

Remote Desktop Connection Manager or RDCMan is a free download from Microsoft for managing multiple remote desktop connections. The functionality provided by RDCMan is above and beyond what you’ll find in the built-in Remote Desktop MMC and comparable to other 3rd party Remote Desktop utilities. If you’re connecting to multiple… Read more

After the first release of SQLIse (“SQL Ice”)--a basic IDE for T-SQL that includes ability to edit, execute, parse, format SQL code from within PowerShell ISE, several people contacted me to help add new features. The result is SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) 2.2 with many enhancements to SQLIse…

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