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Month: May 2026

PowerShell Strikes Back: A New Script

Posted onMay 26, 2026May 25, 2026Leave a comment

This is it. The final chapter of PowerShell Strikes Back. Over the past four weeks, you’ve built a real foundation. You know that single quotes are literal and double quotes expand variables. You know how to store and use data in variables – strings, integers, booleans, and hashtables. You know how to loop over a Read More …

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PowerShell Strikes Back: Return of the Loop

Posted onMay 18, 2026May 18, 20261 Comment

Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is paying off. In Week 1, we learned that quotes are not interchangeable. In Week 2, we put variables to work – storing server names, config values, service objects, and boolean results. If you’ve been following along and running the examples in Read More …

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PowerShell Strikes Back: The Empire of Variables

Posted onMay 11, 2026May 18, 20262 Comments

This is Week 2 of PowerShell Strikes Back – a four-week May series for SQL Server DBAs who have dabbled in PowerShell but never stopped to nail down the fundamentals. If you missed Week 1 on single vs double quotes, start there first – it’ll make this post land better. Last week, we learned that Read More …

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PowerShell Strikes Back: Know Your Quotes, Young Padawan

Posted onMay 4, 2026April 30, 20262 Comments

This is Week 1 of PowerShell Strikes Back – a four-week May series for SQL Server DBAs who have dabbled in PowerShell but never stopped to nail down the fundamentals. New posts every Monday in May. May the 4th be with you. A long time ago, in a query window far, far away, a DBA Read More …

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