Announcing the New PowerShell Virtual Chapter of PASS!
PASS is launching a new PowerShell Virtual Chapter. It's first meeting is next Wednesday at 12 pm EDT.
2010-10-15
832 reads
PowerShell
PowerShell Version 2: What is new and why is it important?
It was a year ago that Microsoft shipped PowerShell 2. Jonathan Medd lists the top ten reasons why PowerShell 2 should be an important tool for your work
2010-10-01
4,489 reads
Moving Indexes with Powershell and SMO
Using Powershell with SMO, learn to alter or move indexes easily in this new article from Zach Mattson.
2010-09-30
4,566 reads
Gathering Perfmon Data with Powershell
Inspired to streamline the process of gathering and storing data from Performance Monitor Counters, SQL Server MVP Laerte Junior guides us through the functions of his remarkably useful module.
2010-07-21
3,220 reads
I’m a SQL Server DBA, and I’m in Love with PowerShell
To learn PowerShell, Laerte Junior suggests that you just start using it. To encourage you to start, he provides a series of tips on using PowerShell with SQL Server to solve various everyday problems. With a little patience, a good IDE, and a bit of help and advice, "the lion is dead".
2010-06-24
5,883 reads
Sharing Your Scripts - Made Easy
Windows PowerShell v2 introduces self-contained “modules,” making it easier to share scripts with reusable functions, custom format views or type extensions.
2010-05-28
2,789 reads
Retrieve Default SQL Server Backup Folder using PowerShell
In a previous tip on creating a Function to Return Default SQL Server Backup Folder , you've seen how you can create a T-SQL function to query the registry and retrieve the default SQL Server Backup folder. Is there an easier way to do it in Windows PowerShell?
2010-04-23
2,763 reads
Exceptional PowerShell DBA Pt 3 - Collation and Fragmentation
In this final look into his everyday essentials, Laerte Junior provides some useful scripts for the DBA that use an alternative way of error-logging. He shows how to use a PowerShell script to check and, if necessary, to defragment your indexes, write data to a SQL Server table, and change the collation for a table. Being an exceptional DBA just got a little easier.
2010-02-26
2,552 reads
Exceptional PowerShell DBA Pt2 - The Morning Checklist
Laerte Junior takes us further into the world of an Exceptional PowerShell DBA, showing us how he uses PowerShell 2.0 to take all the headaches out of even more of his daily checklist. What could be better than having your morning checklist run itself?
2010-01-28
3,012 reads
Automate Range Right Partition Management with Powershell (Part II)
In the last script, we covered removing the trailing partition in a Range Right, date valued partition. This script adds a new (empty) partition to the partition scheme.
2010-11-12 (first published: 2009-12-17)
1,039 reads
Blogs
How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...
Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle
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The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...
A New Word: Mornden
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mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
Forums
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Question of the Day
Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
GO See possible answers