Finding SQL Server Installs Using Powershell
Old Dog, New Tricks
I’ve been writing tools for SQL Server for a lot of years. Some of these tools were...
2013-02-27
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Blog Posts
It Is Your Fault
I earned my nickname. I’m proud of it. I am the Scary DBA. I don’t really like to advertise my...
2013-02-27
1,532 reads
Optimizing Protected Indexes (was Indexing Encrypted Data)
Why bother encrypting?
Riddle me this batman? Why bother to Encrypt?
As a SQL Server DBA I am primarily responsible for making...
2013-02-27
1,823 reads
Setting up an Internal Friendly URL
Note: This solution is not necessarily the best or most efficient solution in all cases. It is, however, very simple...
2013-02-27
3,313 reads
Thanks to my session attendees
To all of the wonderful attendees to both the VMware Partner Exchange SQL Server on VMware VBCA boot camp on...
2013-02-27
1,103 reads
We’re Live on the PowerScripting Podcast! (Thursday night, 02-28)
Your MidnightDBAs
Unusually, Sean and I will be guests on someone else’s podcast this week! Tune in live to our PowerScripting...
2013-02-27
1,273 reads
Windows 2012 for the DBA Setting Your Server to High Performance
Hello Dear Reader! I’ve been doing a lot of work with Windows Server 2012 lately. The interface is wildly different...
2013-02-27 (first published: 2013-02-20)
3,542 reads
A Month of PowerShell – Day 20 (Databases: Table-Valued Functions)
Welcome to Day 20 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-26 (first published: 2013-02-20)
2,762 reads
A Month of PowerShell – Day 26 (Changing Login Passwords)
Welcome to Day 26 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-26
1,307 reads
A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 9: Time Series
by Steve Bolton
The data mining method known as Time Series is aptly named, because it seems to take a...
2013-02-26
3,133 reads
Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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