database-tools

When you override Out-Default to do something meaningful, you really want to make sure the old behavior isn’t lost, and instead just something...

Out-Default is a hidden PowerShell cmdlet that gets called at the end of each command, and outputs results to the console. You can override this...

Typically, Out-GridView opens a window and displays whatever you pipe into the cmdlet: PS C:\> Get-Service | Out-GridView However, with a little...

At psconf.eu there was recently a challenge for the shortest code to check for how often a password was previously pwnd (hacked). Here is the result...

Some geocoding APIs provide sophisticated sentiment analysis like in the example below: "Most important museums of Amsterdam are located on the...

Geocoding can automatically extract geolocations from text. This example also shows a new way of submitting information to a server: in the example...

Today, we’d like to do the opposite and translate latitude and longitude into an address: '52.37799,9.75195' | ForEach-Object -Begin...

Let’s start with translating addresses into latitude and longitude coordinates. We assume you read the previous parts to fully understand the...

Last year, Google changed their terms and requires an individual API key now to use their geocode API. Fortunately, there are free alternatives, so...

Sometimes, web requests that work fine in a browser do not seem to work well in PowerShell. For example, when you navigate to...