If you’re like me, you’ve used Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V more than a time or two, but you’ve always felt a little dirty afterwards. Yeah, you can use the command-line COPY or XCOPY utilities. But they’re decidedly 20th Century, much like some of the laundry still loitering under my office couch. So I spent a little time over [...]
The Awesomeness of ROBOCOPY Now at SQLMag
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2009: The Year in List Form
Before I jump onto the Goals and Themeword meme started by my buddy, Thomas LaRock (blog | twitter), I decided I’d spend a few minutes looking back on both the year 2009. (From a personal standpoint, the 00′s were my most difficult decade yet. Major problems of every stripe beset me on all sides and [...]
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Like PowerShell for SQL Server?
Check out my new Tool Time column in this month’s SQL Server Magazine. It features some great new PowerShell scripts and information from Chad Miller (blog) who I had the pleasure to meet in person back in October of this year while speaking at the SQL Server of central Florida and at SQL Saturday #21. [...]
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Where you can find me at the PASS Summit
In previous years, I hardly had time to sit down and catch a breather at a PASS Summit. Between my duties as an officer of PASS, exhibit hall time with Quest Software (my employer), speaking in my own sessions, and meeting with PASS volunteers and community organizers, I was busy from the crack of dawn [...]
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New at SQLMag – Disk2Vhd
I just posted a new entry on my SQLMag Tool Time blog that you might enjoy. Thanks to my friend and fellow MVP John Paul Cook for bringing Disk2Vhd to my attention on his blog. The free tool is enables migration of a physical machine (PM) to a virtual machine (VM), while the PM is [...]
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New at SQLMag – TraceAnalyzer
I just posted a new entry on my SQLMag Tool Time blog that you might like to check out. I’m a big fan of Bill Graziano’s ClearTrace tool, but perhaps you’ll like the new tool from DBSophic, called TraceAnalyzer, even better? Compare the two and let me know here. Cheers, -Kevin Twitter @kekline
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New Post on My SQL Server Magazine Blog
Just put up a new post detailing a new block discovery and alerting script from Yaniv Etrogi. Read my SQLMag blog describing free tools and scripts for SQL Server at: http://www.sqlmag.com/blog/index.cfm?action=blogindex&DepartmentID=965. Enjoy! -Kev Twitter @ kekline
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