by Katherine Villyard | Oct 30, 2012 | sysadmin
South Carolina Department of Revenue hacked: South Carolina state officials announced Friday evening that the social security numbers of some 3.6 million state residents and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers were exposed in a data breach. The SSNs were stored...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 30, 2012 | short fiction
It’s got me and a lot of other awesome women in it, and it’s FREE. Check out Broad Spectrum: The 2012 Broad Universe Fiction Sampler. My story starts: Last time this happened, I was Orpheus. Ethan was lost, pale, gone in a haze of Zoloft and Lithium and...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 8, 2012 | scripting, sysadmin
You didn’t get this from me. You downloaded it off the internet. In fact, why don’t I turn that bunch of scripts into a series of jobs and give it to you as one big lump? (Download.) How to use: Load file into SQL Server Management Studio. Replace all...
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 23, 2012 | scripting
You never know when you’re going to have to plagiarize yourself. Seriously, I just repurposed the “migrate databases to new drives” script to be a “migrate databases to a new server” script. Rather than starting from scratch, I changed a...
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 14, 2012 | haiku
It has come to my attention that WordPress has replaced my quotes with smart quotes, which causes EPIC SCRIPT FAIL. Therefore, I’ve uploaded downloadable versions of the scripts. Smart quotes inserted, Script fails upon copy-paste. “Smart quotes”...
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 31, 2012 | scripting
“Windows Internal Database,” is basically SQL Server with network access and the maintenance tools turned off. You might want to do maintenance on whatever’s in there, anyway. I use Windows Task Scheduler for that, at least until I move the...
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 24, 2012 | cons
I’ll be reading at the Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading at Dragoncon on Sunday, September 2, at 5:30pm in Greenbriar. Woe, my current story is 23,000+ words long and conflict-poor. It needs some serious, serious editing. But I was not writing at...
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 21, 2012 | scripting
Suppose that you’ve been asked to migrate 166 databases’ .mdf files from one drive to another. How would you do that? I’d generate a list based on the .mdf files (the databases are all named the same thing as the .mdf. If this wasn’t the...
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 31, 2012 | writing mysticism
I was doing 250 words a day as a goal, but Jen and I signed up for stickK together. It looked like a time commitment would work better with their site than a wordcount commitment, so I said ten minutes a day/an hour a week. This works a lot better than I expected. I...