Has been a very busy year for me, haven’t posted lately, but was very excited to share this. I’ve had the opportunity to be a technical reviewer for three PowerShell books this year! One that I’ve really enjoyed reviewing has just been released, and the publisher Packt is offering an end of year sale for $5 eBook […]
Year: 2015
SQL 2016 CTP2 is out, with Technet Virtual Labs ready to learn!
Microsoft just released SQL 2016 CTP 2. CTP is a customer technology preview, that lets us explore new features of the product before it’s released to marketing (RTM). I found it in my MSDN new downloads. Not ready to download and install it but still want to learn? Technet Virtual Labs already has SIX virtual […]
Get your Public IP and Geographic Data with PowerShell
Always fascinated by what can be done very tersely with PowerShell. I saw an interesting tip on PowerShell.com that gives the geopraphic info on a given public IP. They had a post I dug up a couple years back that determines your public IP dynamically, so I connected the Lego blocks… here is a […]
Scripting COMPLETE Full-Text indexes after a database restore
You may find yourself working with SQL 2000 databases, or later versions of SQL that were migrated from SQL 2000, with the Full-Text indexes stored outside the SQL data files. In this scenario, once you restore a SQL Server database, your full-text catalogs and the full-text indexes within are not restored along with your data. […]