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Generate a Change Script to Move System Databases
I set this up to be modular and reusable, because I like reusing things. This doesn't actually move your system databases. It just outputs a change script and a revert script. You still have to run the generated script, then log on to your server and restart the...
De-duplicating files in batch
So, I have a drive full of files. Sometimes, I get a new one--okay, sometimes I get over 1000 new ones--and want to keep the latest and pitch the duplicates without throwing away old files that don't have a duplicate. These files are of the form...
Pull the restore chain from MSDB
What files do I need to restore this database to a point in time? You might know this off the top of your head, especially if you set up the backups or if you don't have a lot of backups, but just in case you're panicking, ask MSDB. MSDB knows all... unless that data...
Windows Internal Database/SQL Express backups and maintenance
Google informs me that my post on Windows Internal Database Maintenance is popular. It's not what I'm currently using, however. I've switched over to Ola Hallengren's scripts. If you download and run the installer script, it creates a series of agent jobs, which,...
Nagios Checks for Dell OpenManage Disk Health Written in PowerShell
I wrote these in PowerShell to run with nrpe/nsclient. They query Dell OpenManage's command line and return a Nagios-readable result. (There are plugins available on Nagios Exchange, but they all seemed to be... more than I wanted. I just wanted to know, "Is my RAID...
New Story Available–“Minotaur”
Did I really not post here about my latest story? My story "Minotaur" is available in the Alien Abduction anthology. Only $5 for the Kindle version, and my aliens are pretty alien. If you heard me read at the Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading at Dragoncon last year,...
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.