PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 3: Providers, PSDrive
Providers
What are Providers? Providers in PowerShell are a hierarchical namespace way flattening out an infrastructure to make it accessible and...
2010-05-20
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Blog Posts
Preparing for SQLSaturday #49
We’re still in the early stages so the pace is comfortably slow. We’ve got about 30 sessions in already (plenty...
2010-05-20
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SQL Server MasterClass – London
Further to my post on May 18th regarding the above event – I have been able to secure a further £50...
2010-05-20
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Using PATINDEX to Split Column Data
A colleague of mine received an Excel file that he needed to load into a table for future lookup values....
2010-05-20
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What 5 things should SQL Server get rid of?
Paul Randal (Blog|Twitter) recently kicked off this meme by listing the 5 things he thinks SQL Server should get rid of....
2010-05-20
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Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature – Day 10
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-05-19
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It’s a Data World
I saw this blog about a report from CITA (wireless industry group) that people tend to use their cell phones...
2010-05-19
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June OPASS Meeting Date Change
Andy Warren (@sqlandy) already blogged about the change here, but I there might actually be someone who reads my blog...
2010-05-19
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oPASS June 2010 Meeting Date Change
Normally we meet on the second Tuesday of the month, but in June we’re going to have to push the...
2010-05-19
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PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 2
Cmdlets, Functions and Snapins
So far we’ve learned how to open up PowerShell and add on to it with some modules;...
2010-05-19
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Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
Forums
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
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Spring Connections and Learning at PASS On Tour
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Multiple Sequence Values
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Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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