I made the front page of dbatools, as a part of the community that is supporting this project. Along with quite a few others, I’m happy to be there and doing my part to make SQL Server administration and scripting easier.
Maybe I’ll even write a cmdlet some day. Since I keep working on my PoSh skills and playing with the various cmdlets.
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers.
A quick one today, and this one I remembered without looking anything up.
I recently needed the service name to kill it for a test. I was using the sc.exe command line and couldn’t get it to give me the SQL Agent service name. I could have hit Windows, typed services, scrolled down, found the Agent, right clicked it, selected properties, and gotten the name.
Or I could do this:
Get-Service | Where {$_.Name –Like ‘SQL*’}
That worked and I could quickly see all the names.
The only thing that threw me was I forgot the hyphen before “like”. One of these days I’ll actually remember that.
Today was my presentation in the April GroupBy conference lineup. I presented on DevOps and changing your database development to include more agile, DevOps, flexible development practices.
If you want to get the deck, the slides are here: BringingDevOpstotheDatabase.pptx.
The video is also up on the GroupBy Youtube channel
VS Live takes place in Austin on May 15-18, 2017. This is a great conference in a fun city. It’s a full stack event, with the change to learn about cloud computing, ALM/DevOps, SQL, and Visual Studio, all at the same event. You can move from room to room and learn about a variety of technologies.
If you’d like to go, register with AUSPK14 and save $400 off the full conference price.
I’m speaking, covering Database CI and SQL Server 2016 Security features, and there are plenty of other great speakers on the schedule. Come join us in Austin next month, have a margarita, and learn some new ways to build better software.
