Today Joe Webb (Blog|Twitter) blogged about The Power of Regex in Powershell, and in his post he shows how to parse the SQL Server Error Log for events of interest. At the end of his blog post Joe asked about other places where Regular Expressions have been useful in PowerShell so I thought I’d blog [...]
Jonathan Kehayias
The Rambling DBA
Parsing SQLIO Output to Excel Charts using Regex in PowerShell
Posted on: May 25, 2010 11:55 am
Does tempdb Get Recreated From model at Startup?
Posted on: May 14, 2010 7:32 am
In my last post Does the tempdb Log file get Zero Initialized at Startup? I questioned whether or not tempdb is actually created from the model database or not at startup. There is actually an easy way to prove that this statement, at least internally to the tempdb database is in fact TRUE. Many thanks [...]
Does the tempdb Log file get Zero Initialized at Startup?
Posted on: May 14, 2010 6:34 am
While working on a problem today I happened to think about what the impact to startup might be for a really large tempdb transaction log file. Its fairly common knowledge that data files in SQL Server 2005+ on Windows Server 2003+ can be instant initialized, but the transaction log files can not. If this is [...]
