Here is a situation I just came across (boiled down and simplified). An end user was having to manually find a user id, navigate to an image folder, and then search through hundreds of images to find the one corresponding with that user. Sure, they were in numerical order, but still, what a pain! He wanted to… Read More »
This is perhaps my most commonly used query when troubleshooting. From SQL Server DMV’s in action ebook. The output shows the spid (process identifier), the ecid (this is similar to a thread within the same spid and is useful for identifying queries running in parallel), the database name, the user running the SQL, the status… Read More »
PowerShell script to quickly change all Recovery Options to “Restart the Service”. https://gist.github.com/benf101/a3c7020c0a582aca06059b750bd08528
Creating and writing to output file in PowerShell.