The Extended Events technology added to SQL Server in SQL 2008 and expanded upon greatly in SQL 2012 is a powerful mechanism for monitoring activity...
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Deep Dive: SQL Diagnostic Manager Availability Checks
One of the frequent questions I get about SQL Diagnostic Manager pertains to one of the most fundamental features of the product – exactly how is...
Is Your SQL Server Slow? Maybe It’s Trying Too Hard
The following is a guest post by Microsoft Certified Master Robert L Davis. Find more from him at SQLSoldier.com, and follow him on twitter...
Reading StringExpand Registry Values
When you read a Registry value of type StringExpand, it will always automatically expand any environment variables contained in the text. This...
Copying instance lists between SQL Elements and SQL Diagnostic Manager
If you’re a user of both SQL Elements and SQL Diagnostic Manager, it’s a reasonable bet that you’ll have some overlap of instances being monitored...
Five Must-Have Tools For DBA’s
SQL Diagnostic Manager SQL diagnostic manager is a full, feature-rich monitoring solution for your SQL Server and virtualization platform with...
The Cheat-Sheet on SharePoint’s Distributed Cache
I was in Indiana this past weekend at SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis, and one of the presentations I delivered at the event was a favorite of...
Manipulating File System Paths (Part 3)
In previous tips we illustrated how you can turn file system paths into arrays and then create new paths by changing or excluding parts of the...
Manipulating File System Paths (Part 2)
When you turn a path into an array to manipulate parts of the path, if you access path elements by fixed index numbers, then this approach will only...
Manipulating File System Paths
PowerShell lets you access multiple array elements. With the help of -split and -join, you can easily manipulate file system paths this way. To...
Writing DWORD-Values to Registry
In PowerShell 2.0, Set-ItemProperty by default always creates REG_SZ (String) values. PowerShell 3.0 is smarter. When you submit a numeric value,...
Importing Website Tables into Excel
Sometimes, you might see interesting information on websites. For example, navigating to http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/index.html will open a...