Last week I spoke to the Atlanta PowerShell User Group about Remoting and Background Jobs. There are a couple different flavors of Remoting but the one I’m most excited to show people is called Implicit Remoting. What if you were on a machine that only had SSMS 2005 and you had to run something against a [...]
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I’ll be speaking at SQL Satrurday #40 in Miami
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 [...]
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 [...]
PASS Virtual Chapters Late April Presentations
To finish up the month of April we’ve got sessions from AppDev and DBA and I’m even including one from PASS on ‘Intro to Speaking At PASS’. The AppDev group will be hosting the SARGability session twice, once for people having Lunch in Australia or Dinner in L.A. and once as a Late lunch for [...]
I’ll be speaking at CodeStock!
I’ll have more info for you guys later but this will be my first non-SQL-centric event that I will be speaking at so I just wanted to share I’m extra-excited about this event because this year they are making a push for Women In Technology. Here’s a snippet from that announcement: “This year we are [...]
Speaking in Chicago this weekend at SQL Saturday #31
I’ll be speaking at SQL Saturday #31 in Chicago this weekend. I’m presenting a PowerShell for Data Professionals session. This is based off a previous session but does include some new content. If you’ve seen the session before, there will be something new and the demos will hopefully transition a little smoother. I’m working with PowerShell automation every day at [...]
PASS Virtual Chapters Early April Presentations
In April we’ve got free training coming your way from the usual suspects of the PASS VCs (AppDev, DBA, and Virtualization). Here’s what’s on tap in chronological order: _____________________________________________________________ Using Virtualization to Solve Common Dev/QA Environment Problems April 7th Noon Eastern (GMT -4) Presenters: Aaron Nelson & Dushyanth Nataraj Isn’t two always better than one? [...]
