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  • Trello is awesome for everything

    May 1, 2016 · 2 min read  ·
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    The other week, I was introduced to Trello for the first time by this tweet and I fell in love. In case you missed it, here’s my Trello of upcoming “How Stack Overflow does X” blog posts, please vote or suggest! https://t.co/6E8JRb4RSu — Nick Craver (@Nick_Craver) February 1, 2016 Basically, Nick uses Trello to gauge …


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  • WE DID IT! Microsoft Fixed Those 3 SQLPS Issues in SQL Server 2016

    Apr 3, 2016 · 2 min read  ·
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    In my previous blog post "Can We Get These 3 SQLPS Issues Fixed before SQL Server 2016 RTMs?", Aaron Nelson and I asked the SQL and PowerShell community to help upvote 3 SQL Connect items. The items addressed three problems with SQL Server's PowerShell module, SQLPS. It took 3-5 seconds to load It changed the …


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  • More on SQLPS and SQL Server on Linux

    Mar 17, 2016 · 2 min read  ·
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    In tonight's PowerScripting Podcast, I shared a few things about SQL Server on Linux, and talked a bit about SQLPS. All after a lengthy intro about my tech life and Cajun culture ;) You can watch the whole thing, skip to 28 minutes to the podcast intro, or skip to around 59 minutes for the SQL/Linux/SQLPS portion. Or …


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  • Can We Get These 3 SQLPS Issues Fixed before SQL Server 2016 RTMs?

    Mar 4, 2016 · 4 min read  ·
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    YES WE CAN! Microsoft responded and fixed these 3 major issues in SQL Server Management Studio March 2016 Refresh. Read more at "WE DID IT! Microsoft Fixed Those 3 SQLPS Issues in SQL Server 2016". I'll be honest, I don't use the SQLPS module even though I'm the perfect candidate. I've been a SQL Server DBA …


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  • Failed Domain Relationships on SQL Server Cluster Nodes

    Jan 20, 2016 · 2 min read  ·
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    You know what's scary as hell? When one node of an important cluster loses its trust relationship with the domain and you see the error "the trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed". That happened to me late last year with one of my SQL Server 2008 R2 nodes. The scary part …


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  • PowerShell Conference EU 2016, psconf.eu

    Jan 20, 2016 · 1 min read  ·
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    I'll be presenting some sessions about SQL Server and PowerShell at the PowerShell Conference EU in Hanover, Germany on April 20-22! You should join me, because the speaker and session lineup is amaaazing! Register at psconf.eu. Want to know more? Check out PowerShellMagazine.com and psconf.eu!


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  • PowerShell Tip: You may not need to load the DLL for that Assembly that can't be found

    Jan 7, 2016 · 1 min read  ·
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    Recently, I wanted to access the System.Windows.Forms.Integration.ElementHost type, which uses the System.Windows.Forms.Integration namespace. When I tried to load that namespace, PowerShell complained that The assembly 'System.Windows.Forms.Integration' could not be found. I read up and found that the …


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  • Adding Toolbar Icons to Your PowerShell WPF GUI

    Jan 6, 2016 · 3 min read  ·
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    This post builds on some previous post titled Use base64 for Images in WPF-based PowerShell Forms. Show-WpfIconExample.ps1, which can be found below and on github, demonstrates how to overlay the default PowerShell toolbar icon with an image that's been transformed to a base64 string to …


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  • ShowDialog() Sucks: Use ApplicationContext and Run Instead

    Jan 6, 2016 · 5 min read  ·
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    Update Jan 7: Added KeyboardInterop so that TextBoxes will work. One of the lessons learned when making Popups and NotifyIcons in PowerShell and WPF is that the WPF window must be run the the proper context. I was tipped off to this by Denniver Reining's PowerShell / NotifyIcon article and Johnny J's "Doing a (C#) …


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  • PowerShell Invoke-RestMethod / CloudFlare API v4 Code Sample

    Dec 29, 2015 · 2 min read  ·
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    If you're looking to create your own CloudFlare API v4-based PowerShell module, and would like some syntax examples, here's a simplified breakdown of my CloudFlareDynDns module on github, which I discuss in "Use PowerShell and CloudFlare API v4 to Dynamically Update CloudFlare DNS to your External IP". 1# Set …


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Chrissy LeMaire

SQL & PowerShell MVP. GitHub Star. Creator of dbatools. Need to oil my knees.

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