I love parsing through IIS logfiles but I dislike the directory structure that Microsoft creates for IIS logging. Each site has a randomly generated directory name so, for example, "netnerds.net" could store its files in "C:\windows\system32\logfiles\W3SVC720199813." Who wants to track that down? …

I recently sent out a newsletter to everyone who had any communication with RealCajunRecipes.com. I had an Exchange Mailbox that collected all emails sent using the Tell-A-Friend feature of the website as well as the guestbook, Ask Maw-Maw, and general website comments. I'd forgotten to automatically subscribe these …

The code below was written pretty quickly. It backs up the Wordpress directory, the mySQL table, zips it then emails it to the specified gmail account. Mutt must be installed.. change the variables to suit your environment. 1#!/bin/sh 2theDate=`/bin/date +%Y%m%d` 3 4######### backup DB ########## …

EDIT: This post is about 3 years old now and I've since started using Songbird. Read my review titled: "Songbird is to iTunes what FireFox is to IE". If you dislike iTunes as much as I do, Anapod by RedChairSoftware is the perfect alternative. I find it extremely easy to use and the interface is aesthetically …

That was a fun break.

title: "Class of 2019: 25 Microsoft MVPs you should be following" date: "2019-08-06" lastmod: "2025-11-01" categories: "general" Back in 1996, as I watched a movie about Italy at the Drexel Theatre in Columbus OH, I decided that one day I'd live in Europe. I didn't need to move …

title: "Install-DbaAgentAdminAlert" date: "2023-06-06" lastmod: 2025-11-01 draft: true categories: "sql-server" "powershell" If you're wondering how to get reliable, actionable notifications when serious problems occur on your SQL Server, SQL Server Agent "admin" alerts …

title: "Loading SMO in Your SQL Server-centric PowerShell Modules" date: "2016-12-23" lastmod: "2025-11-02" categories: "powershell" "sql-server" In a recent version of PowerShell, Publish-Module, which publishes modules to the Gallery began requiring fully qualified …

date: "2018-02-11" lastmod: "2025-11-03" categories: "general" I've been seeing quite a bit of posts about speaking mentorships and I wanted to share a few speaking tips I recently gave to my buddy Garry Bargsley who will be speaking about dbatools at SQL Saturday Phoenix 2018. The first …

AI Automation Batch-Fixing T-SQL Casing with AI Automate T‑SQL casing fixes across hundreds of files using reference lists and the right tool for the job. Surgical fixes > architectural rewrites case-fix-session > Get-ChildItem -Path . -Filter *.ps1 -Recurse > Where-Object FullName -notmatch '\\tests\\' > …