The Home Server is Back

After reading about the Amazon/Apple attack this morning, I grabbed a second cup of coffee and went in search of...

VM Guest Memory – Watch these numbers !

I have been using VMware vSphere client for a while now and the person who inspired me to use this...

Ctrl+R in SSMS 2012

After the successful installation of the SQL Server 2012, some shortcut keys can be possible to not work properly like...

Database and Disk Size - PowerShell Script

Every time we do a capacity analysis we need to analyse the database size (free and used) and the disk...

Database Certificates and the X.509 Standard

 Hello Dear Reader, I came across an interesting discovery about a year ago and realized I’d never written about it. ...

Drive Size - PowerShell Script

The below script is used to find the disk size for a set of servers,

## Script to Find List of...

First Try at a Wooden Hand Plane

I’ve been reading about wooden hand planes lately (as opposed to hand planes made of metal that plane wood) and...

Fix: Crystal Reports Shows Red X Across Entire Page When Report Run Inside Visual Studio

I was googling (with Bing AND Google) like crazy for a solution to this, but didn't find one from any...

Modify Host File on Windows 7

Modifying the Windows host file can be a great way to ensure that you don’t accidentally modify production while doing...

Speaking at PASS Summit 2012

It’s Not A Repeat
Speaking at the PASS Summit last year was one of the highlights of my career. I had...