It feels like forever since I spoke at a SQL Saturday! The South Florida SQL Saturday will be help on July 31st, 2010 at Devry University – South Florida, 2300 SW 145 Ave, Miramar, FL 33027. Event checking will be at 7:30 with the Keynote beginning at 8:00 and sessions beginning at 8:30. I can’t [...]
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TechEd is Coming to Atlanta!
TechEd is coming to Atlanta in May 2011! That’s right in just 10 months over 10,000 IT Professionals from around the world are going to descend on Atlanta for a week. I was really surprised to hear this since they were not that far away in New Orleans this year but who cares this is [...]
I Will Be Speaking at the 2010 PASS Summit
I just wanted to take a quick moment to let everyone know that yesterday I received the great news that I will be speaking about PowerShell at the 2010 PASS Summit! Here’s what my session will be: The Dirty Dozen: PowerShell Scripts for the Busy DBA You’ve heard it said, “If you have to [...]
PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 3
Providers What are Providers? Providers in PowerShell are a hierarchical namespace way flattening out an infrastructure to make it accessible and traverse-able just like a directory structure hard drive. Why do you need them? Well you quite possibly may not ‘need’ them per-say but they sure do make things easier to work with from time [...]
PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 2
Cmdlets, Functions and Snapins So far we’ve learned how to open up PowerShell and add on to it with some modules; then we learned how to create a variable and populate it with anything from some numbers to an entire table. Today we’re going to quickly look at another way of expanding PowerShell with something called [...]
PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 1
Getting Started With PowerShell Variables Yesterday we laid the ground work for PowerShell Week. Today we will learn about Variables in PowerShell. You will notice that PowerShell variables work very differently from SQL Server variables. The evolution of variables in SQL Server is pretty straight forward. In SQL Server 2000 you had to DECLARE a variable as a [...]
PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 0
Welcome to PowerShell Week at SQL University. For regulars at SQLvariant, SQL University is something Jorge Segarra organized to get industry experts together to create learning courses around SQL Server. These learning courses are in one week segments that focus on a specific area. When I began blogging about PowerShell there were some complications based on [...]
The Scripts
Last week I did a podcast for geekSpeak and a similar session at SQL Saturday #38 in Jacksonville. I’ve already blogged about most of the scripts in those sessions but here is a download of a bunch of those scripts. I have changed them a little from the way they were written in my session [...]
