Hello again! Sunday, I wrote that we’re here in Seattle for the PASS Summit, and that it’s my tenth year. AND that I’m doing daily “letters home” to you fine folk, just like I’m away at summer camp. We’re still just a day or three away from the start of the Summit itself, depending on how you […]
Category: sql server
Regular Expressions: tagging expressions
I re-discovered something very cool while using RegEx in SSMS today: tagging expressions and referencing them in the same line! I’ll take a minute to define regular expressions, explain tagged expressions, and then show you how to use it in the same line. But first, XKCD: Regular Expressions defined “A regular expression, regex or regexp [is]… a sequence of characters that define a search pattern. Usually this pattern […]
More PowerShell for fun (and profit) – filter files by date
PowerShell provides an easy way to search for and/or delete just the files you want. Let’s look at navigating in the PowerShell window, and filtering by name, and by date last modified.