I read this interesting article on using PowerShell and the registry, and thought I would modify his information a bit to list the SQL Server Instances on a box. The interesting thing about listing instances this was is that you can touch remote machines, find the instances when they are off and so on. Anyway, here’s the scriptlet I used to find ...

I'm working on a PowerShell script to show me the trending durations of my backup activities. The first thing I need is the data, so I looked at the Standard Reports in SQL Server Management Studio, and found a report that suited my needs, so I pulled out the script that it runs and modified it to this T-SQL Script. A few words here - you need ...

  I first heard about the possibility of database cloning way back in version 7.0 and thought it sounded like a great idea. Who wouldn't love to have a bunch of identical little databases running around, of smaller size and easier manageability? Cloning a database means creating a statistics only copy of it, so that you can examine ...