Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #65
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-01-06
1,090 reads
Blog Posts
Looking Back At the Droid Razr Maxx
It’s been 18 or 19 months since I upgraded from the Droid X to the Maxx. The X was a...
2014-01-06
380 reads
Posts I've Found Interesting:
This is a question I had until I came across a great script by The Scripting Guys. The script below...
2014-01-06
379 reads
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
2,160 reads
South Alabama Day of .Net
Just received an email from my friend Ryan Duclos announcing the South Alabama Day of .Net in Mobile, Alabama, on...
2014-01-06
341 reads
SQL Server – Different ways to check Recovery Model of a database
A Recovery Model is property of a database which control how transaction log is maintained. SQL Server supports SIMPLE, FULL...
2014-01-06
271 reads
SQL Server – Different ways to check Recovery Model of a database
A Recovery Model is property of a database which control how transaction log is maintained. SQL Server supports SIMPLE, FULL...
2014-01-06
147 reads
SQL Server Quickie #9 – Clustered Indexes
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-01-06
599 reads
MDX Root Function
This week I discovered an incredibly useful MDX function, the function is called Root. Full documentation can be found here. In the past, I have encountered scenarios where I...
2014-01-05
13 reads
MDX Root Function
This week I discovered an incredibly useful MDX function, the function is called Root. Full documentation can be found here. In the past, I have encountered scenarios where I...
2014-01-05
37 reads
Blogs
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2
By DataOnWheels
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Forums
Backup Availability Group
Please I am hoping for some feedback Specifications: Windows Server 2022 SQL Server 2022...
How Do the Experts Become Experts?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Do the Experts Become...
Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments...
Question of the Day
Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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