Last week Nicolas Cain ( blog | twitter ) Rob Farley ( blog | twitter ) Aaron Bertrand ( blog | twitter ) and I were all working together on a small skunk-works project to read in all of of the items on the SQL-Connect website (more in that project in a later post). A few hours into this process I realized “hey, I don’t even have this RSS feed in my Reader!” I’m not sure why I didn’t; maybe I was lulled into safety by Aaron Bertrand’s “Connect Digests” but unfortunately he doesn’t do those any more.
So I just wanted to encourage everyone who makes their living off of SQL Server to take a minute to add these two RSS feeds to your favorite feed-reader.
https://connect.microsoft.com/rss/68/RecentFeedbackForConnection.xml
https://connect.microsoft.com/rss/68/RecentlyModifiedFeedbackForConnection.xml
If you haven’t been on Connect for a while and wonder what’s out there, well I’ve got a PowerShell script for you
Invoke-Sqlcmd -ServerInstance denali.db.5026258.hostedresource.com ` -Database denali -Username denaliconnect -Password Wide0pen -Query " SELECT ID , Title , ItemStatus , UpVoteCount , DownVoteCount , ItemDescription , Author , Modified , ValidationCount , WorkAroundCount , URL , OpenedDate FROM denali.dbo.ConnectItems" | out-gridview
OK, you can totally take that login info and use your SQL Management Studio to connect to this database too but I wanted to show you a REALLY cool use for the Out-GridView command. When run the PowerShell script and the window pops up Just Click on + Add Criteria > ItemDescription > Add.
Like this:
Then just type in a search term like “SSIS” and see what you get back…
Rob has also put together a way to search the data that is much better and where we hope to ultimately go with it. Again, that’s all for another post.
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Thanks! As always great job!
Thanks Aaron! As always great job!