After moving from Twitter to Mastodon, I wrote a blog post about how aliases can help us keep a consistent social media presence even if we change servers.

This means that even though dbatools is currently using the fosstodon.org server as [email protected], I'll be linking [email protected] on all of our …

Just recently, I was presenting at a conference and when I got to the intro slide, I realized how weird it is that Twitter will no longer be a part of that. I used to dedicate a whole slide saying "Find me on Twitter, I'm @cl" and now ¯\(ツ)/¯.

Thing is, I found a server I like so far but what if I move? What …

Mastodon feels like the 2007 Internet -- it's exciting and hasn't been plagued by SEO-gaming websites and "a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four."

Initially, I was pretty gutted by the sale of Twitter but now I see that what I was afraid of losing connections …

One of my GitHub Actions, mssqlsuite makes it ultra easy to install SQL Server on Linux, Windows and macOS runners. When working on the macOS portion, I was surprised that docker was not built-in.

Turns out, GitHub had to remove docker from the macOS images because of licensing issues.

Workarounds

One of the most …

I've used ExpressVPN for years and it's worked great on all my devices until one day, when it stopped even trying to make a connection from my Mac Mini.

As soon as I'd hit the connect button, it said it couldn't detect an internet connection -- even though I totally had an Internet connection. So I uninstalled, …

Years ago before I learned PowerShell, I was using T-SQL to do things it just wasn't meant to do, namely SQL Server estate management. T-SQL is incredibly efficient when managing data, but it's not very efficient when managing SQL Server instances.

For example, say you need to perform a task against each database. The …

This post is about Import-DbaCsv, a command within the dbatools PowerShell module for SQL Server.

I've been writing about CSV imports using PowerShell for a pretty long time and in VBScript for even longer. Initially, my primary concerns were ease-of-use and speed. Over time, I realized that what mattered most was: …

If you're curious about the $Env:PSModulePath for GitHub Runners, here's what I came up with after running a workflow.

Knowing the $Env:PSModulePath of each runner can be useful for making specific types of GitHub Actions. I used it within my own GitHub Action, psmodulecache which makes caching PowerShell modules from …