This is a simple powershell script to query and display hardware and OS information from a remote computer.
It uses CIM (Common Information Model) that is available since Powershell version 3 so as long as you have version 3 and up, you should be able to run this script against any server that you have access to.
2019-08-14 (first published: 2019-08-06)
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Many people have published high performance, read-less, Inline Table Valued functions that use Itzik Ben-Gan's wonderful "Virtual Numbers Table" to replace WHILE loops and other forms of RBAR. This one is Jeff Moden's version.
2019-08-13 (first published: 2019-08-04)
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Previous Monday to the Start of the Previous Quarter
2019-07-29 (first published: 2019-07-18)
598 reads
This view will list all completed and running jobs. It give running times, current step (if active) and average run times for steps.
2019-07-22 (first published: 2019-03-21)
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I realize that this is a bit of a lengthy script for something that you can use a one liner in the power shell:
Example:
Get-ADUser
But I needed to highlight certain properties of given user and take certain actions based on the values. And the result is this power shell script.
2019-07-15 (first published: 2019-07-02)
1,307 reads
A script to drive SQL Compare for building upgrade scripts.
2019-07-11 (first published: 2019-06-26)
2,196 reads
A function to add or subtract working days taking into account weekends and using a table of non-working days.
2019-07-10 (first published: 2019-06-26)
5,296 reads
2019-07-09 (first published: 2019-05-01)
972 reads
This Script will read the Estimated Time for recovery from Error Log
2019-07-08 (first published: 2019-06-26)
744 reads
You find you are querying a vendor supported database where you're not allowed to make any collation changes, and which has a weird collation setup: default DB collation that matches your server and other databases all character related columns are explicitly a different collation that does not match your DB or server collation Rather than […]
2019-07-05 (first published: 2019-06-26)
4,479 reads
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I have a table, dbo.bittest, where I am testing an application response. This has this structure:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BitTest] ( [insertdate] [datetime] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__BitTest__insertd__300F11AC] DEFAULT (getdate()), [a] [bit] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOMy application runs this code:
INSERT dbo.BitTest
(
insertdate,
a
)
VALUES
(DEFAULT, 'true')
GO
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