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The Developer DBA toolkit
Fellow developers are often surprised at how much I use command line and xp_cmdshell. The reason for this is two fold: It saves a lot of time because it means that you don’t always have to remote on to...
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What port number does my SQL Server listen on?
Looking for an easy way to know what port number your SQL Server is listening on? You can of course go to the Configuration Manager or check through the registry… but an even simpler way is to query...
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Include HTML in a SSIS Configuration File
This stumped me for a while, but a useful pointer from a colleague reminded me how this can be achieved… Quite simply as the configuration file is XML we can use CDATA so that the content won’t be...
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Simple PS script to copy files from one share to another
XCopy is great but sometimes you need something a little more powerful. Powershell can give you the ability to perform more complex manipulations. Here we’re finding the previous weekday and using it...
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