Kyle Neier

Kyle has been working with computers professionally since 1995 in both a development and administrative capacity. For over 10 of those years, SQL Server has been the focus of both a professional and personal passion. Kyle has worked in online retail, manufacturing, EMR software, and pharmaceutical industries. Kyle joined PTI in 2011 as a Senior Microsoft Consultant where he continues to chase his passion of automating DBA processes and doing everything humanly possible to prevent the 0200 page. Kyle serves as the Vice-President of the Indianapolis chapter of PASS (www.indypass.org) and served on the committee to bring SQL Saturday to Indianapolis. He shares his passion for SQL Server with others through speaking and mentoring at local and regional events.

Archives: April 2012

PowerShell: Using Exponents and Logs to Format Byte Sizes

In a recent Scripting Games event, I had to format some byte values into their most appropriate size according to how many bytes were present. Anyone who hangs around with me long enough will realize I love numbers and the preciseness that they provide. This is one of many reasons…

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Posted in Kyle Neier on 19 April 2012

PowerShell and T-SQL: Implementing UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT

I’ve been thoroughly enjoying my experience this year with the Scripting Games. This is the first year I've competed and I decided to participate in the Advanced category just to push myself a little harder. I’ve been using Powershell for quite some time, however, I’ve never had the pleasure of…

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Posted in Kyle Neier on 12 April 2012

T-SQL Tuesday #029 – SQL 2012 and Treating TempDB like it’s really Temporary.

A while back, my young son thought it would be fun to use a CD as a virtual surfboard on our kitchen floor. While he was a very proud boy, all I could think of was how much that CD cost and how unlikely it was that we were going…

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Posted in Kyle Neier on 10 April 2012

Powershell – Validating an IP Address

A task that I have had to do several times over the years is determine if an IP Address string entered from a prompt or imported from a file is indeed valid. Even more, determining if that IP Address is in use once verifying that the IP Address is… Read more

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Posted in Kyle Neier on 3 April 2012

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