Personally, I don't prefer to use it but I have. The really messed up thing was we had a Microsoft Consultant to do a health check of our environment. The...

Personally, I use PowerShell a lot. I figured the only way I would learn it would be to use it to solve problems. Is it the best way to do...

The code requires a couple of tweaks if you don't run with 'Show Advanced Options' enabled.

We were looking at this and stopped when we figured out that exclusions are at the host level and are not customizable at the guest level. (With the product we...

I agree with call.copse. Tabs all the way

Although I did learn the hard way not to tab after # and space in the powershell ISE(Autocomplete failed and the ISE crashed...

Another thing you could try is a powershell script to pull the logs from a collection of SQL servers and email the filtered results to yourself.

You forgot all except unethical and look for a new job.

Keep it quiet until you can't hold it in.... start whining and complaining. Try to convince management the error...

To emphasize your point about a CS person passing along the note to IT. I had an issue with a certain brand router. Whenever there was a power failure or...

Short answer is you're on your own.

Support Policy for SQL Server in a VM.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=956893

Main Article on Virtualization Support.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957006/

Disclaimer: I do not...

Running sp_who2 will show a slice of the activity monitor data as well.

Sorry I have to ask but have you taken a look at your SQL Server Logs? (Windows Event...