June 26, 2012 at 8:59 am
I guess I'm trying to figure out where to spend my time going forward. Please add to the list as needed
June 26, 2012 at 9:06 am
Robert.Sterbal (6/26/2012)
I guess I'm trying to figure out where to spend my time going forward. Please add to the list as needed
I guess that depends on what you want to do. This laundry list is all over the place. What do you want to focus on?
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June 26, 2012 at 9:22 am
Professionally I help manage 500+ small SQL Server installations. We have 5 to 100 devices per install. I'm trying to automate manual processes and collect data for verification and troubleshooting
June 26, 2012 at 9:27 am
Robert.Sterbal (6/26/2012)
Professionally I help manage 500+ small SQL Server installations. We have 5 to 100 devices per install. I'm trying to automate manual processes and collect data for verification and troubleshooting
Well if that is what you want to continue doing and want to focus on then you could start eliminating stuff from your list. This is not likely to need javascript, Ruby, PHP, Perl, vbscript, Python or BASH. That is pretty much the whole list except Powershell. Now if you are wanting to branch out professionally then you would have to decide what that might be.
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June 26, 2012 at 9:28 am
Sean Lange (6/26/2012)
Robert.Sterbal (6/26/2012)
I guess I'm trying to figure out where to spend my time going forward. Please add to the list as neededI guess that depends on what you want to do. This laundry list is all over the place. What do you want to focus on?
Then I wouuld probably look at PowerShell.
June 26, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Robert.Sterbal (6/26/2012)
I guess I'm trying to figure out where to spend my time going forward. Please add to the list as needed
My personal feeling is that there are zealots of all makes. Asking which ones people use is likely going to get you all sorts of different answers.
the current "rage" is with PowerShell. That one might actually be around for awhile. Of course, you have to keep it updated like anything else.
My favorite scripting tool of all time is a combination of T-SQL and xp_CmdShell to gert to either DOS or PowerShell. (see what I mean?)
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June 27, 2012 at 6:53 am
Thanks for the input.
I'm definitely going to do a deep dive on Powershell, as it is very relevant to my current job.
On a more personal note I'm looking to learn a scripting language that I can deploy on free operating systems (BSD, Linux, etc) so I can run my easily partitioned scripts on multiple machines at the same time. I do a lot of photography and sending the ten or twenty thousand pictures to the appropriate service (facebook, flickr, dropbox, box.net to name a few) via GUI tools is really not practical. Some combination of php (or some other language) and mySQL (or some other free DB) seems like the first platform to investigate.
June 28, 2012 at 6:59 am
On a more personal note I'm looking to learn a scripting language that I can deploy on free operating systems (BSD, Linux, etc) so I can run my easily partitioned scripts on multiple machines at the same time.
Python is the one tool that I've used on Windows, Mac and Linux that is both easy to learn, well supported and has a huge number of examples, tools, and APIs that are useful.
June 28, 2012 at 7:19 am
By the way... I put javascript on the list BEFORE I read this...
http://www.ewherry.com/2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/
The craziness will probably have died down before I ever learn it.
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