Category Archives: Programming

PowerShell – Fast Ping

Source: https://gist.github.com/mbrownnycnyc/9913361 This is a very fast way to ping a server using PowerShell. # with reference to http://theadminguy.com/2009/04/30/portscan-with-powershell/ 2 function fastping{ 3 [CmdletBinding()] 4 param( 5 [String]$computername = “127.0.0.1”, 6 [int]$delay = 100 7 ) 8 9 $ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping 10 # see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.networkinformation.ipstatus%28v=vs.110%29.aspx 11 try { 12 if ($ping.send($computername,$delay).status -ne “Success”) {… Read More »

PowerShell – Get SQL Server Info

$assemblylist = “Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common”, “Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo”, “Microsoft.SqlServer.Dmf “, “Microsoft.SqlServer.Instapi “, “Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlWmiManagement “, “Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo “, “Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended “, “Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlTDiagM “, “Microsoft.SqlServer.SString “, “Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.RegisteredServers “, “Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc “, “Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlEnum “, “Microsoft.SqlServer.RegSvrEnum “, “Microsoft.SqlServer.WmiEnum “, “Microsoft.SqlServer.ServiceBrokerEnum “, “Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfoExtended “, “Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Collector “, “Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.CollectorEnum”, “Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Dac”, “Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.DacEnum”, “Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Utility” foreach ($asm in $assemblylist) { $asm = [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName($asm) } $computers = Get-Content -Path C:\scripts\servers.txt #… Read More »

PowerShell – Replace All Instances Of Something In All Files In Directory

This script searches every file in a directory for a particular string and replaces it with another value. get-childItem | ForEach { (Get-Content $_ | ForEach {$_ -replace “OLDVALUE,”NEWVALUE”}) | Set-Content $_}

Fixing Orphaned Users On A Large Scale

A script that generates a script to fix all orphaned users at once.

Recovering a database in RESTORING state

How to get your database out of the “restoring” state so you can use it again.

PHP Regular Expressions – Remove Comments From SQL Text

This short block of PHP code takes a SQL script and removes the “dash-dash” and “/**/” comments from it. Of course, many languages, including PHP itself, use the “/**/” comment style so this could apply to PHP scripts, as well. The line that removes the dash-dash style comments could easily be changed to the “//”… Read More »