Inspired by Adam Bertram being inspired by Lifehacker's How I Work series, I'm also doing a post about how I work ;) I really liked Adam's balanced assessment so I decided to follow in his footsteps there, too. Where are you located? Belgium, land of the free, home of the beer. Also home of the Belgian PowerShell User …

One of my favorite things in PowerShell (and other languages) is the switch statement. It's clean and a much better alternative to a ton of if elses. Ever had this happen? 1if ($state -eq -1) 2{ 3 $diskstate = "Unknown" 4} 5elseif ($state -eq 0) 6{ 7 $diskstate = "Inherited" 8} 9elseif ($state -eq 1) …

Repost from dbatools.io: Recently, I presented to the Philadelphia PowerShell User Group about Contributing to Open Source PowerShell projects using GitHub Desktop. I chose this topic because a number of people have asked for step-by-step instructions on how to work with GitHub. I love the command line, but with Git? I …

In my previous post, I presented the template I use anytime I need to add multithreading to my scripts. Recently, I had a request to add multi-threading to Read-DbaBackupHeader. This was the first runspace in which I had to output the results from the runspace to the host -- usually I just needed commands to run in the …

Last year, I was looking into multi-threading in PowerShell and, with the help of Dr. Tobias Weltner, Boe Prox and Martin Pugh ultimately decided on runspaces. Then, I presented at psconf.eu about using runspaces to speed up SQL Server/CSV imports. Runspaces took me from about 90,000 rows per second to 230,000 rows per …

After finding that it suited my requirements, I finally decided on a solid VPN - F-Secure Freedome - as recommended by a friend in security. Then I needed to share my connection with my Roku, but Freedome is an application that has to be run on a phone or computer and routers aren't supported. Once I confirmed that …

Hey yall! I invited one of the most active dbatools developers, Cláudio Silva, to do a guest post about his motivation for joining the team and why he built this particular command. So without further ado... here's Cláudio :D Hi everyone my name is Cláudio Silva, I'm a MS SQL Server DBA, and have worked with SQL Server …

Have you seen the SQL Server Tools team's post about the PowerShell module for SQL Server? There are TWENTY FIVE new cmdlets! TWENTY FIVE! That's a 53% increase over the previous 46 cmdlets. It looks like the SQL Server community is well on its way to becoming proper citizens in the PowerShell world, and we'll reach …

I am still so floored by the additions and enhancements made to the module formerly known as SQLPS, now known as SqlServer. Not only do the new additions bring the total number of cmdlets from 46 to 71, but they align what we voted for on the Trello board. That's a 54% increase in the number of cmdlets! We'll be up to …

My first homelab ever was started as a single Packard Bell 486 which ran SuSE Linux 5.2. I used it with my @Home connection to host web, DNS and mail services. Over time, I'd move leftover computers to a data center and covered most of my colo fees with the proceeds from Google Adsense, which I added to my website …