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PowerShell Profile Tips
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Automation is one of the purposes for using PowerShell. Automation is a funny thing, however. You can perform steps of automation almost to infinity.…
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Merry Christmas Eve!
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Merry Christmas Eve! A few weeks ago I posted on Availability Group fail-over tests with PowerShell. That post covered the basics of how to…
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DING – LEVEL 2 !!!
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DING – LEVEL 2 !!! I am excited to announce that I have achieved level 2 in My Epic Life Quest. My epic life…
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Start and Save Hyper-V VMs with PowerShell
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I use Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 R2 on most of my local workstations between home and work. In order to conserve memory,…
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Connecting to an Availability Group Listener with SQL Server Management Studio
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Background When a cluster has an Availability Group installed on it, there is an optional listener which is used to manage connections through fail-over events.…
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How to change the schema of a table
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The other day I set out to performance tune a database deployment. The company was getting ready to implement almost a year’s worth of…
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Query Central Management Server with PowerShell SMO
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All production or operational DBAs need to maintain a server / instance list. SQL Server’s Central Management Server (CMS) is a great means of managing that…
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Rebooting HRSSUG
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This week I’m excited to announce the reboot of the Hampton Roads SQL Server User Group (HRSSUG). We will be coming back online this…
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Dynamically create table results from non-query
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Have you ever executed a command with a result set but you didn’t know the exact schema being returned? Have you ever wanted to…
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Disconnect Users from Database – SQL Hammer
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There are some operations that we execute in SQL Server which need exclusive access to the database. For everyone who has ever attempted this, I’m…