Spinach and Database Development- SQLSatExeter Keynote
Last weekend, we held our SQL Saturday event in Exeter. It was a brilliant event for many reasons but we...
2015-04-30
1,099 reads
SQL DBA With A Beard
Instances and Ports with PowerShell
Just a quick post and a day late for #SQLNewBlogger There are some excellent posts on that hashtag and I...
2015-04-22
1,372 reads
Checking SQL Server User Role Membership with PowerShell
SQLDBAwithTheBeard:
Please go and check the New SQL Bloggers posting here https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sqlnewblogger There are some brilliant new and older bloggers adding great value...
2015-04-24 (first published: 2015-04-14)
5,504 reads
PowerShelling SQL Saturday Sessions to the Guidebook app
Following on from my previous post about parsing XML where I used the information from Steve Jones blog post to...
2015-04-07
782 reads
Parsing XML Child Nodes and Converting to DateTime with PowerShell
As part of my organiser role for SQLSaturday Exeter (Training Day Information here and Saturday Information here) I needed to...
2015-03-31 (first published: 2015-03-21)
6,903 reads
Speaking at PowerShell Virtual Chapter and SQL Cardiff User Group this month
Just a quick post to say that I will be speaking at the PowerShell Virtual Chapter meeting this Thursday at 4pm...
2015-03-17
550 reads
Triggering a System Center Configuration Manager deployment task
A slightly different topic today.
Once you have built up knowledge, you become the person that people ask to solve things....
2015-03-02 (first published: 2015-02-18)
6,511 reads
Show AutoGrowth Events with Powershell to CSV
This week I was reading Pinal Daves post about Autogrowth Events
http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2015/02/03/sql-server-script-whenwho-did-auto-grow-for-the-database/
as it happened I had a requirement to make use...
2015-02-25 (first published: 2015-02-15)
6,258 reads
Uploading a Source Folder to Azure File Storage
Azure File Storage enables you to present an Azure Storage Account to your IaaS VMs as a share using SMB....
2015-02-09 (first published: 2015-02-01)
7,660 reads
Twas 2 Days Before Xmas or Thank you SQLFamily
Twas 2 days before Xmas & all through the office,
not a creature was stirring not even old Maurice.
With merriment going on...
2014-12-23
532 reads
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Help! MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT wait stalls
Hi I have an overnight process that moves allot of claims records Been working...
Unlocking Data Transformation: My journey with dbt (Data Build Tool) on SQL Server
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Putting the Player with the Number
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Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers