Transforming Event Log Data
Several months ago I described a solution for Delegated SQL Server Administration with Powershell. In the solution, the SqlProxy module...
2012-03-28 (first published: 2012-03-23)
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Chad Miller
Reconciling SPNs
As part of troubleshooting Kerberos authentication for SQL Server I had to verify SPNs so I thought I’d blog about...
2012-02-20
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Sharing Profiles
A question came up in a class I was teaching: “How do you share your Powershell profiles across accounts?”
Well, there’s...
2012-02-11
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Sarasota IT Pro Camp
Join system administrators IT professionals and database professionals in addition to managers at all levels who work with Microsoft technologies...
2012-02-04
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Orlando IT Pro Camp 2012 Presentation
Presentation and scripts from my Storing Powershell Output session at Orlando IT Pro Camp 2012.
2012-01-31
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Orlando IT Pro Camp
The Orlando IT Pro Camp marks our third event after Tampa and South Florida. As with the prior IT Pro...
2012-01-10
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Importing CSV Files to SQL Server with PowerShell
Ed Wilson (Blog|Twitter) aka Scripting Guy is kicking off another guest blogger week (Nov 28th 2011) with my guest blog...
2011-11-28
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Some SQL Server Security Housekeeping
Managing SQL Server security changes in mass is something which screams automate it. Let’s look a at few examples using...
2011-11-14
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Delegated SQL Server Administration with Powershell
Providing delegated administration to groups that need to perform various security functions has always been a difficult task, but thanks...
2011-11-07
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Gaining SQL Server SysAdmin Access
I’ve seen this come a few times at work and I’m sure most you have experienced something similar.
Someone or an...
2011-10-22
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers