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Squee!!!
As of yesterday, I'm a Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Security. 😀
Rename a lot of databases with PowerShell
I was given the task of renaming a bunch of databases named something like "name," "name_1," "name_2," etc., to "nameold," "nameold_1," "nameold_2," etc. Our convention is for the database name to match the file names. So......
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
I expect that I'm about to frustrate a lot of people, but that's the way it is. Back in 2007, I started a "Hurricane Katrina" story. Â I wandered around in my post-apocalyptic Probably New Orleans, got lost, deleted 5,000 words, rewrote it a bazillion times, sent it...
SQL Server Express Maintenance
Don't you love looking at your old scripts? I've rewritten all of our maintenance jobs, including the jobs in task manager that handle SBSMonitoring.  I've rid myself of Windows Internal Database, but was still using the script I wrote for it.  Not any more! I decided...
Backups FTW!
I could say it's because I'm a DBA and SysAdmin and it's an occupational hazard, and frequently do.  I could also say it's because I'm neurotic.  😉  But it's probably the most honest to say, "Because I once experienced a catastrophic data loss..." For whatever...
The Career Venn Diagram
Every now and then, people ask me for career advice.  Or, you know.  They start complaining about their careers and I annoy them with unsolicited advice.  😉  Either way, my advice for choosing a career comes down to: Things you can do that people will pay you to do...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.