Posted in Scripting

Powershell – Quite note on Objects

I’m sure this comes as no surprise to anyone who’s dabbled in Powershell, but just about everything in Powershell has an Object underneath. The results…

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Powershell – Piping

One of the most often-used features I’ve seen so far in Powershell has been the concept of piping the results of commands into other commands…

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Powershell – Arrays & Hash Tables

I don’t have too much to say about Arrays at this point, but as I’m partly blogging this for my own education, I’ll put down…

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Powershell – Variables

I’ve just started to play around with variables in Powershell. I used them a little bit before this, but am in the process of figuring…

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Powershell – Modules and Profiles

Probably not technically correct, but pretty close. I’ve been trying to use SQLPSX for Powershell, recently updated to v2.0. For the longest time, I’ve tried…

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Getting Started with Powershell

I’m in the process of learning PowerShell. This seems to be the first scripting language that we can use at the server/desktop level that has…

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Posted in SQL Server VSTS DB Pro

Learning to work around DB Pro

I’ve been trying to get a multi-database solution working correctly with MS Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals (aka DBPro or DataDude). Anyone who…

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Posted in SQL Server SSIS XML

SSIS and XML Output

I was pretty surprised by this and am in pretty good company.  SSIS 2005 and 2008 do not have an XML Destination adapter. We have…

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Posted in Performance SSIS

Data Loads

One of the things I really like about SQL Server Integration Services is that it can load large data sets quickly, especially if you need…

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Posted in SQL Server

Getting Started

Well, I was inspired by Steve Jones (of SQL Server Central fame) to start a professional blog, if only to record some of my thoughts…

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