Prashanth Jayaram

Technology enthusiast with 7+ years of experience in Database Technology. I am Microsoft Certified Professional with certificates of OCA, MCP, MCTS, MCITP developer, MCITP administration and backed with a degree in Master of Computer Application. My expertise lies in T-SQL programming, Replication, PowerShell and Performance Tuning. Hobbies are Drawing, playing soccer and listening to Melodies songs.

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PowerShell – Find OS architecture (32 bit or 64 bit) of local or remote machines Using Powershell

Method 1: Environment Variable
PS:\>$ENV:PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE
Method 2: Using Win32_OperatingSystem
ps:\>$computername=’abcd’
ps:\>(Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem -computername $computername).OSArchitecture
Method 3: Using Win32_Processor
ps:\>$computername=’abcd’
ps:\>Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Processor -ComputerName $ComputerName| Select-Object AddressWidth
Method 4:[IntPtr]::Size - Gets the...

2014-01-06

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The Backup File Extension

I run this command in SQL Server 2022. What is the extension of the backup file? 

BACKUP DATABASE HerdofTwo TO DISK = 'HerdOfTwo_20240501'

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