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...
2012-05-01
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Kyle Neier
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...
2012-04-19
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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...
2012-04-16 (first published: 2012-04-12)
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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...
2012-04-10
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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...
2012-04-03
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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...
2012-03-29
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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...
2012-03-27
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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...
2012-03-19
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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...
2012-03-13
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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...
2012-02-07
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers