Shane O'Neill

Is the command `git pull && git remorse`?

dbatools is moving to Azure Trusted Signing TLDR: dbatools is moving to Azure Trusted Signing, which means Microsoft backs our reputation and dbatools won't trigger as many antivirus false positives. …

🎉 Big news! dbatools is moving to Azure Trusted Signing, which provides base reputation on Windows SmartScreen. No more antivirus false positives.

The catch? If you use strict ExecutionPolicies, you'll need to trust our cert after each update (it rotates daily). But we've got automation scripts.

Two weeks to go until this year's edition of EightKB...the world's biggest SQL Server internals conference!

Registration is completely free...you can sign up here...
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#eightkb #sqlserver

Ah! Foiled by my colourblindness yet again!

Mangled text output of a `go test` command...

Eh, if this is my output for `go test . -v -cover`, then I think I've done something wrong...

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☕ Less Clicking, More Sipping!
@ja.mesrusk.in for @chocolatey.org shows how #Chocolatey for Business speeds up software deployment:
⚡ Build packages in seconds
⚡ Offline installs with Internalizer
⚡ Auto-builds via GitHub Actions
⚡ Central Management for rollouts

Ordering and Choices in PowerShell Ah! Hash tables! Ever since I saw a presentation by Anthony Howell ( Blog ), aka PoshWolf, about them, read the blog post by Kevin Marquette ( Blog ) about them, and was enlightened by multiple Pow…

Ah! It's nice to blog again!

Ordering and Choices in PowerShell

#powershell #sqlblog

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Talking to all my cork friends today

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🚀 Containers ≠ black magic.
@dbafromthecold.com showed us how to go from #Docker to #Kubernetes with real-world clarity at #PSConfEU 25:
✔️ Persistent data
✔️ StatefulSets
✔️ Secrets & YAML configs
✔️ SQL Server in K8s
🎟️ Tix open for 2026 → psconf.eu
#PowerShell

*Be work* have a process that sometimes fails due to OOM errors.
*Le me* creates workaround process to not have to restart broken process
*le me* workaround process is faster than normal process

It's a once a week thing?
Do I tell people? They're going to ask me to do their work? 😫

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

Stacked for Success: PowerShell Callstacks in Everyday Scripts, Wed, Jul 9, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Unlock the power of PowerShell callstacks to track and manage the execution flow of your scripts. This talk goes beyond debugging, showing you how to use callstacks to unde

Hey #PowerShell folks! Friendly reminder that THIS Wednesday (2 more sleeps!) I'm going to be talking the PNW PSUG about abusing callstacks for ill-gotten gains.

This one is going to be pretty fun!

Details: www.meetup.com/pacific-powe...

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Today was... not great.
Before I battle tomorrow, I'm going to take tonight off.

Take care of yourself, folks.

The Dos and Don'ts of PowerShell with Steven Judd and Gilbert Sanchez

@andrewpla.tech @gilbertsanchez.com @stevenjudd.bsky.social 3 buds talking #PowerShell
Dos and Don'ts.
Such a great episode lads, well done.
pca.st/episode/f8dd...

<# SPOILER #>
Expanding into Postgres; having to think about dead tuples in perf-tuning is so foreign to me right now!

Thanks for the post @kendralittle.bsky.social

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Bring me too!!!

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Final session at #sqlbits before I head for my flight home is Bob Ward and SQL Server 2025 Community Edition

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The Benefits of Mentoring at #sqlbits with @dgmelkin.bsky.social

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The Flash, aka @claudioessilva.bsky.social is up at #sqlbits with X-Raying Schema Operations: Adding and Removing Columns

Also, good news! The notebooks are coffee proof!

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And we have @funbucket.dev with Mind the Gap: Bridging PDFs and SQL Server with AI at #sqlbits

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Ouch! 🫂

It distracts me from thinking about having to leave for the airport and missing the last 2 sessions...

The best way to improve your #PowerShell skills is to DO. That's why I wrote The PowerShell Practice Primer. No lab setup needed. 100+ exercises, including PowerShell 7 content. leanpub.com/psprimer

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At #sqlbits2025, there are two sessions I want to see that are at the same time...

Next up at @sqlbits.bsky.social is @tracisewell.com talking, "Talking about mental health for you and for them"

"How do dragons blow out birthday candles?" is staying with me!

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We have a packed house for @kekline.bsky.social at @sqlbits.bsky.social

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Kicking off day 2 at @sqlbits.bsky.social

PySpark seems useful.
Given the choice, though, I'm not sure if I'd use it or #duckdb

Helps I don't know their proper use cases 😅

Just landed for it 🙌