Companies are expanding their systems beyond relational databases to incorporate big data and cloud deployments, creating hybrid configurations....
DevOps integrates software development and IT operations into a single continuous process that delivers significant benefits to common business...
Get-PSCallStack returns a so-called “Call Stack” which – in its simplest form – tells you the nesting depth of your code:...
Howdy! Welcome to a series of blogs on Aqua Data Studio - The leading universal database IDE and productivity tool on the planet! In this quick...
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Here is a super simple approach to create random passwords. The approach makes sure no ambiguous characters are used but does not care about other...
We are pleased to announce the release of Precise 10.0, the company’s application performance monitoring platform. This latest release...
When you are connected both to a LAN and a WLAN, and would like to prefer one network over the other, you can adjust the network metric. The lower...
You can add personal context menu commands for file types like PowerShell files. These context menu commands appear when you right-click a .ps1...
Here is a PowerShell function called Lock-Screen that can lock the screen and prohibit user interaction. There can be a custom message, and the...
If a PowerShell script needs to perform critical steps, and user interaction must be prohibited, you can use API calls to temporarily disable all...
The DBA is the information technology professional responsible for ensuring the ongoing operational functionality and efficiency of an...
Encoding PowerShell code is a great way to run PowerShell code outside the PowerShell environment, i.e. in batch files. Here is some sample code...
World Backup Day This year, World Backup Day was on Sunday, March 31, 2019. Per my blog post from two years ago “Guidelines for Backup and Recovery...
Deleting registry keys is typically trivial and can be done with Remove-Item. However, every once in a while, you may come across registry keys that...
We’re excited to announce the general availability of DB PowerStudio 17.0.3. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the Idera...
When you right-click a PowerShell script in File Explorer, you typically find a context menu entry called “Run with PowerShell” which...
Assume you want to hand a PowerShell script to an unexperienced user. How can you reliably get that person to correctly launch your script file?...
Indexes in SQL Server databases can have the most significant positive impact on the performance of SQL Server instances, or they can be the worst...
If you are using Publish-Module to publish your modules to a PowerShell repository, and you keep getting exceptions about unsupported commands, it...
In previous tips we illustrated how you can use PowerShell to split files into smaller file chunks, and how to join the chunks to recreate the...
In our previous tip we explained how you can split large files into smaller chunks. Today, we complete this with a function that takes these file...
Developers are under increasing pressure to reduce development cycles and keep up with changing platforms. Here’s how Embarcadero is making that...
PowerShell can split large files in multiple smaller parts, for example to transfer them as email attachments. Today, we focus on splitting files....