Connecting to SAP HANA using #PowerShell. We will discuss a simple example scenario and will be getting backup details.
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2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,700 times in 2015. If it were a NYC subway…
Posted in Fun-Stuff
Working with EPPlus and PowerShell
I recently worked on a requirement, where the end user wanted to convert Excel files into tab-delimited text files. In my head I was like, this is easy: “PowerShell FTW! Yay!”. The reason for the excitement was because we already have two repositories that I know work well with Excel and fit my requirement.
◾Doug Finke’s – ImportExcel module.
◾Warren F’s – PSExcel module
Retrieve your blog posts from WordPress using REST API
If you own a wordpress blog and are curious as to how many posts you blogged with a particular tag, the Invoke-RestMethod is here to help you.
Windows Azure setup for using with PowerShell
In this post we will see how you can create a logical server and database instance on Windows Azure SQL Database and connect to the database using PowerShell.
First things first, we need a Windows Azure subscription. Presently, you can register for a free trail at http://www.windowsazure.com.
Tagged with: Azure, Powershell, SQL Database, Windows Azure, Windows Azure SQL Database
Posted in PowerShell
Posted in PowerShell
T-SQL Tuesday #050: Automation, lessons learnt
The topic for the golden jubilee edition is, “Automation”. What is T-SQL Tuesday? T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different blogger each month. This blog party was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter). You can take part…
T-SQL Tuesday #050: Automation, how much of it is the same?
Automation plays a huge part in our lives and the DBA profession is no so different. A couple of years ago this topic was shared by Pat Wright. I would like to revisit this again and see how much of our approach has changed.
2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,100 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway…
T-SQL Tuesday #46: You did what? Creative hacks to common problems
This whole thing, was put in a store procedure and then called from a job step for a long running job. For example, like a database backup job. And additional logic was written around the return value to write proper error numbers to application log. These event-ids where then picked up by monitoring applications and alerts where raised.
I have mixed feelings about this solution. Although, it worked without a problem (I am secretly proud that I was able to write something like this); I would have loved to just upgrade the servers to SQL 2008 and be done with it.
Tagged with: execution state, proof of concept, rube goldberg machine, SQL Server, T-SQL Tuesday, technology
Posted in SQL Server
Posted in SQL Server
Using verbal expressions to make regex easy in PowerShell
What it means is that, we write ‘Four times X plus 3 equals seven’, and get ‘4x+3=7′. That example, could be a little misleading so let try it again, a valid url would consist of http at the begining of the line, maybe s if you are accessing a secure site, then it will have ://, maybe www. if you are so inclined to type and anything but a space. The aim of verbal expressions is to let you type the above and get a regular expression that matches a URL which is this: this:’^(?:http)(?:s)?(?:://)(?:www.)?(?:[^\ ])$’
Tagged with: Powershell, Regex, Regular Expressions, RegularExpressions, Verbal Expressions, VerbalExpressions
Posted in Fun-Stuff, PowerShell
Posted in Fun-Stuff, PowerShell
