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Why Should DBAs Care About PowerShell? Sean McCown answers this question by demonstrating the simplicity of scripting in PowerShell, in contrast to T-SQL and VBScript, through a variety of real world examples.

Microsoft will be celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, and for those interested in the history of the world’s largest software company, this infographic from Train Signal Training will give you a quick history of Microsoft’s sales, stock & revenue, and a historical timeline of the company’s history.

Christian Mohn provides a walkthrough of Microsoft’s Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT) for license and activation management. In addition to license administration, VAMT allows admins to manage and activate Multiple Activation Key (MAK), Key Management Service (KMS) and retail product keys.

Sean McCown builds upon past 2 PowerShell scripting articles (Scripting Database Objects in PowerShell & Scripting Database Objects with Advanced Options in PowerShell) to discuss how to build a scripting process which enables each object to be scripted to its own file.

Overview of wireless LAN technologies including 802.11 standards variations, channel planning and options for implementing Cisco Access Points.

vSphere based backup solutions such as VMware Data Recovery and Veeam Backup and Replication v5 rely on vSphere’s snapshot technology to backup live VMs, which excludes Fault Tolerant VMs as they do not allow snapshots. In this article, Tom Finnis explains how to use custom scripts to work around these restrictions and enable regular scheduled backups of Fault Tolerance protected Virtual Machines.

Sean McCown takes us beyond the basics of scripting database objects in PowerShell. This article explains how to set advanced scripting options using SMO.

A step-by-step guide covering the basics of scripting database objects in PowerShell by Sean McCown. With PowerShell you can easily script all the objects in your database manually, or schedule the scripting anytime you’d like, and for as many of your servers as you’d like.

Jennifer McCown covers the basics of indexing in SQL Server, one of the most effective and essential elements to an efficient database system.

In this quick tutorial, we’ll show how sysprep and ImageX can be used capture a custom system image of Windows 7.

In this installment of this SQL Server Reporting Services series, Jennifer McCown covers creating, formatting, and exporting SSRS reports.

One of the most frustrating situations presented to computer users is the instance when their hard drive fails. They try to access their files and they might even purchase a SATA or IDE to USB attachment to try and get their files off onto another computer. Unfortunately, in many instances, the files are gone and…