Use SqlCredential with Powershell to connect to an instance of SQL Server In this post I will share how to use the SqlCredential object with Powershell when using SQL Authentication in order to pass the password in Read More » No Comments
Use PowerShell to Install a Windows Service remotely When installing a Windows Service remotely as a “Local Service” there are no credentials involved and this is a pretty straight forward task. But if Read More » No Comments
Find the specific sql server t-log to be restored for an unrecovered database Recently when I needed to find the Transaction Log file that can be applied to a log shipping secondary database I decided to take a Read More » No Comments
Improve performance of files purge with PowerShell Here is a technique to improve performance when you come across the task of deleting thousands of files located under many folders This is Read More » No Comments
Compressing SQL Server backups using 7Zip4Powershell When maintaining client’s systems, I tend to pay extra attention about SQL Servers backups, being a ware that the data in most cases is the Read More » No Comments
Sending IIS logs to Logstash and Elasticsearch Parsing the IIS logs to get statistics can be very useful as these logs hold many properties for each request that has been served by Read More » No Comments