by Katherine Villyard | Aug 31, 2012 | scripting
“Windows Internal Database,” is basically SQL Server with network access and the maintenance tools turned off. You might want to do maintenance on whatever’s in there, anyway. I use Windows Task Scheduler for that, at least until I move the...
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 24, 2012 | cons
I’ll be reading at the Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading at Dragoncon on Sunday, September 2, at 5:30pm in Greenbriar. Woe, my current story is 23,000+ words long and conflict-poor. It needs some serious, serious editing. But I was not writing at...
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 21, 2012 | scripting
Suppose that you’ve been asked to migrate 166 databases’ .mdf files from one drive to another. How would you do that? I’d generate a list based on the .mdf files (the databases are all named the same thing as the .mdf. If this wasn’t the...