CodePlex is long gone, but the script can now be found here: https://github.com/koenmd/AutoAudit/blob/master/README.md A few years ago I discovered a great utility called “Auto Audit” on CodePlex by Paul Nielson (author of “Sql Bible”) and John Sigouin. The best thing is that it creates triggers that audit insert, update, and deletes on any desired table. […]
Powershell can be useful for parsing or harvesting data from the web via means of the “Invoke-WebRequest”. Among other things, it can return a collection of links. The code below loads a page from Wikipedia and loops through the collection of links, looking for a certain pattern to find all the cities in a state. […]
Today’s Powershell example is something that I know I will re-use, so I wanted to put it in a place where I could always find it, i.e. on my blog. The main purpose of this example is to show how to route output from a cmdlet to a formatted or “pretty” output, such as as […]