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.

SQLPSX Developer Blog

by Chad Miller

Chad Miller

Powershell enthusiast, DBA and new SQL Server PowerShell Extensions developer Mike Shepard started a blog. Mike addresses a common question...

2009-09-07

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SQLPSX 1.6.1 Release

by Chad Miller

Chad Miller

I completed a maintenance release of SQL Server PowerShell Extensions, which address all known open issues. This release is still...

2009-09-02

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Internet Explorer Automation with WatIN

by Chad Miller

Chad Miller

At my workplace I use an IT Service Desk application, called well, "Service Desk" from CA. The system is web-based...

2009-08-29

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Continuous Integration in a Development Environment using Red Gate Backup and SQL Compare

by Chad Miller

Chad Miller

My co-worker and fellow DBA, Leigh Freijo has a blog entry about a Powershell script he created to re-integrate QA/Development database changes...

2009-08-25

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Tampabay SQL Server User Group Presentation

by Chad Miller

Chad Miller

I presented a one-hour session for Tampabay SQL Server User Group on Powershell and SQL Server. I've previously delivered this session for the...

2009-08-19

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Installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 7

by Chad Miller

Chad Miller

When Installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 7 RTM, I encountered a couple of issues. Supposedly you can install SQL...

2009-08-15

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ThrowAway Scripts

by Chad Miller

Chad Miller

Although I tend to write a lot of formal scripts, as part of the development process I'll explore an object...

2009-08-12

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SQLSaturday #16 South Florida Downloads

by Chad Miller

Chad Miller

I presented a 1 hr session at SQL Saturday #16 session PowerShell and SQL Server Administration: In this sesssion we...

2009-08-08

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SQLSaturday #16 South Florida

by Chad Miller

Chad Miller

I'm giving a presentation at SQLSaturday in South Florida on August 8th 2009. If you haven't been to a SQLSaturday,...

2009-07-27

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Building PowerShell GUIs with Primal Forms

by Chad Miller

Chad Miller

Although PowerShell is best suited for console applications there are times when a GUI interface just makes sense, however hand cranking...

2009-07-25

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Blogs

Query multiple Azure SQL Databases

By hellosqlkitty

I was sick of changing context in Azure Data Studio while cleaning up things...

KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 3

The crime spree in Digitown is not ending. This time 20 cars have been...

The Book of Redgate: Do Your Best Work

One of our mission statements in the Book of Redgate says: attempt to do...

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Forums

CAST(VARCHAR(n)) resolved performance issue?

By mikael_ljunghorn

Hi, I would love to hear if anyone can tell me why a CAST...

isnull, coalesce overhead

hi, one of our sister division's erp extract view is going thru at least...

is there an elegant way for agent notification to show failure if any step fails

hi our corp dw load sqlagent job goes to the next step on the...

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Question of the Day

The Internals of Writing a Page

In SQL Server, when the buffer manager write pages to disk, page protection is added to the pages. There are two types of protection: torn page protection and checksum page protection. What happens with regards to concurrency with page protection during writes?

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