The 2012 Powershell Scripting Game(shows) in review

Over the past few weeks, those around me know that I’ve been talking a lot about Powershell, how much it...

PowerShell: Using Exponents and Logs to Format Byte Sizes

In a recent Scripting Games event, I had to format some byte values into their most appropriate size according to...

PowerShell and T-SQL: Implementing UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT

I’ve been thoroughly enjoying my experience this year with the Scripting Games. This is the first year I've competed and...

T-SQL Tuesday #029 – SQL 2012 and Treating TempDB like it’s really Temporary.

A while back, my young son thought it would be fun to use a CD as a virtual surfboard on...

Powershell – Validating an IP Address

 
A task that I have had to do several times over the years is determine if an IP Address string...

Error 18456 a little more friendly in 2012

While preparing a demo for a presentation, I generated a 18456 error in the SQL instance by selecting a non-existent...

Powershell – Adding accounts to Local Security Policy

 
One of the challenges I’ve had over the years is figuring out a way to add the SQL Service accounts...

Powershell - Working with Cluster Resources - Byte Arrays

Over the next few weeks, I plan to share some of the discoveries I've had when working with Windows 2008R2...

T-SQL Tuesday #028 – Is it really specialization?

This is the first time I've participated in T-SQL Tuesday - I hope to do so more often...

I can recall several...

Finding the Missing Perfmon Counters in SQL Express

My post this weekend about slaying beasts with magical .dll incantations was my way of relieving some stress after having...