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
2,363 reads
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
Comparing My Current Schema with a Backup with SQL Compare
By Steve Jones
A customer asked if they needed to restore a database from backup to compare...
Improving Our Conversations
By Brian Kelley
If we aren't having the same conversation, we aren't going to be heard. That's...
How Do You Pick Events in Extended Events?
A while back I wrote about using AI to explore why people are not...
Forums
create a table with data capture for next 3 years
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Is GenAI Coming Faster Than You Think?
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Local Storage Options
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Question of the Day
Local Storage Options
I'm setting up a SQL Server 2019 instance and we are planning on using SMB storage for our database files. However, the file share isn't ready, so the idea is to use the \127.0.0.1dbfile as the location to start and then move these files to the remote server. Can I do this?
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