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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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....

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...