Automation, PowerShell March 28, 2016 Why Your PowerShell Scripts Break When You Install SQL Server Management Studio 2016 It turns out that mixing multiple versions of SQL Server DLL's when loading modules is a bad idea. Who knew?! read more 10159 7 0
PowerShell October 23, 2015 PowerShell Quickie: Compare tables and row counts in two databases on different servers Here's a quick way to find total row count differences in two SQL Server tables using PowerShell read more 6911 0
Automation, PowerShell October 12, 2015 Production Data Monitoring with Stored Procedures and PowerShell You might be monitoring those servers just fine, champ, but what about the actual data the business uses? Also, lizards. read more 4531 0
Nonsense, Useful Links September 21, 2015 October 2015 Speaking Schedule Here's where I'll be speaking in October. Please bring me candy. read more 3028 0
Automation, PowerShell August 12, 2015 Upgrading to Windows 10 on your workstation? Write PowerShell that uses SQLPS? About that… Or: PSModulePath and you. read more 4493 6 0
Nonsense August 11, 2015 SQL Saturday Indianapolis: Everyone remembers their first time (recap) Here's what happened when I decided to start speaking at SQL Saturday. read more 2906 0
PowerShell May 31, 2015 SQL Server Backup and Restores with PowerShell Part 2: Backing up a database In my previous post we talked about setting up your local environment to use SQL Server and PowerShell together, so now let’s put this into practice. read more 6568 0
Automation, PowerShell April 26, 2015 SQL Server Backup and Restores with PowerShell Part 1: Setting up Using PowerShell to automate backup and restores of your databases. It's not as crazy as it sounds. read more 8096 4 0
Automation, PowerShell April 9, 2015 Blog Series: SQL Server Backup and Restores with PowerShell Let's build something! read more 6329 1 0