This is a simple powershell script to query and display hardware and OS information from a remote computer.
It uses CIM (Common Information Model) that is available since Powershell version 3 so as long as you have version 3 and up, you should be able to run this script against any server that you have access to.
2019-08-14 (first published: 2019-08-06)
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If you are new at your job or a new client you would like to gather and review the sql server meta data to understand the environment and get...
2019-08-01 (first published: 2019-07-10)
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This is a simple powershell script to query and display hardware and OS information from a remote computer.It uses CIM (Common Information Model) that is available since Powershell version...
2019-07-23
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At one of my clients I received an email from one of the IT Project Managers asking a simple question:"Can you please let us know which databases reside on...
2019-07-18 (first published: 2019-07-03)
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I realize that this is a bit of a lengthy script for something that you can use a one liner in the power shell:
Example:
Get-ADUser
But I needed to highlight certain properties of given user and take certain actions based on the values. And the result is this power shell script.
2019-07-15 (first published: 2019-07-02)
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You may have situations where the CPU % usage is well below the alert threshold but still queries are running slow because they are waiting for CPU to be...
2019-07-11
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Most of the times I use the CSV files whenever I need to import or export SQL Server data. And then if I need to do further analysis on...
2019-07-11
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I should start off by mentioning that this post is applicable to sql server versions 2012 and up. If you have an older version of sql server, the solution...
2019-07-09 (first published: 2019-06-26)
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This is actually part 2 of a process I am creating to automatically discover SQL Server instances in an Active Directory domain. So there will be a series of...
2019-06-28
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First, some blah... blah... blah...
By default when a primary key constrained is created on a table/view, SQL Server automatically creates a unique clustered in order to enforce it. And...
2019-06-27
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I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
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One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned from this code:
DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!'; DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX); SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000))); SELECT BASE64_DECODE(@encoded)See possible answers