Chad Miller

Chad Miller is a Senior Manager of Database Administration at Raymond James Financial. Chad has worked with Microsoft SQL Server since 1999 and has been automating administration tasks using Windows Powershell since 2007. Chad is the Project Coordinator/Developer of the Powershell-based Codeplex project SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX). Chad leads the Tampa Powershell User Group and is a frequent speaker at users groups, SQL Saturdays and Code Camps.

Archives: November 2012

Sqlcmd is dead. Long live Sqlcmd

SQL Server 2008 and higher ship with the invoke-sqlcmd cmdlet while SQL Server 2005 and higher includes the sqlcmd.exe utility. Not wanting to take a dependency on invoke-sqlcmd, a few years ago I’d written a simpler variation I called invoke-sqlcmd2 which I’ve updated along with others.

You might think with… Read more

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Posted in Chad Miller on 12 November 2012

Scripting SSIS Package Deployments

Before I delve into the subject of scripting SSIS package deployments, I’m going to take a slight detour and explain why the general subject of automating deployments is important.

Automating Deployments

One of the keys areas you should be looking at automation, possibly through scripting is deployments. If you’re doing… Read more

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Posted in Chad Miller on 6 November 2012

Cloning SQL Servers to a Test Environment

I’ve been involved in a project to set up a full test environment of dozens of SQL Servers. The requirements of the test environment where such that they needed to be cloned via V2V or P2V from source servers, the servers would then be renamed and located within a completely… Read more

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Posted in Chad Miller on 5 November 2012

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