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Tinker, Tailor, Developer, DBA
Tinker, Tailor, Developer, DBA is not intended as a pitch on a slightly less harrowing book or movie than the John Le Carre classic. ...
Service Broker Gone Wild: Dealing With sysxmitqueue Bloat
Have you ever been surprised by suddenly finding out that one of your databases has grown way beyond your expectations? Hopefully, this isn’t a...
Team DBA and Collaboration
In previous blog posts I have explored the relevance of the DBA position itself in business and the unique ways that SQL Server DBAs tend to...
Top 3 Development Environments for PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) supporting extensibility and standards-compliance. Just like any...
2 Ways to identify that we have a bad plan in SQL Server
SQL Server is a complex RDBMS with a lot of capabilities in it. I am sure most of us have just scratched the surface when it comes to working with...
Top 3 Sample Databases for PostgreSQL
If a developer is attempting to learn a new process or test some code, it’s best to utilize a test environment such as a sandbox rather than the...
Top 4 Startup Parameters DBAs Must Know
Introduction Working on a server is always something DBAs cherish. With every environment that they monitor, they want to know how applications can...
Pinging via IPv4
All PowerShell versions You can use ping.exe just like any other command inside PowerShell scripts. By adding “-4” to the command line,...
5 Different Ways to Start SQL Server Services
If nothing works, then a restart works. This is the exact sentiments that an Administrator has when it comes to working with software. If you are...
DBAs and Dinosaurs
You have to admit that title is catchier than yet another “Death of the DBA” blog. And that was exactly the direction I was headed until I ran...
Make Parameters Mandatory and Optional at the Same Time
An often overlooked feature in PowerShell is the ability to make a function parameter both optional and mandatory - at the same time. Let's for...
Enabling Visual Styles
When you use Windows Forms dialogs and windows, you may have noticed that they show differently, depending on whether you launched your script from...
Test Local User Account Credentials
Verifying a Local User Account Here is a snippet that verifies a local user account. Simply submit a username and a password. You get back either...
Using RegEx to Filter Files
Get-ChildItem supports basic wildcards, but it does not support the rich feature set of regular expressions. If you combine Get-ChildItem with...
Finding User Account with WMI
WMI represents all kinds of physical and logical entities on your machine. It also has classes that represent user accounts which include both local...
Increase SQL Server Performance Using Multiple Files
By default, SQL Server databases are comprised of two files: the primary data file (or .mdf) and the log file (or .ldf). It is, however, possible to...
Tips for Optimizing XML in SQL Server
I’ve worked on a project that used XML heavily inside SQL Server. We really utilized SQL Server’s XML support almost to the full extent,...