Now I’m working mainly with Linux and MySQL I’ve had to learn how to accomplish basic tasks in entirely new ways. As a DBA I like to keep an eye on disk space. I wanted something like my Check disk space with Powershell script, but this only works with Windows, so naturally I turned to [...]

Here are a few Powershell nuggets for beginners to digest. First thing that might trip you up is the Execution Policy built into Powershell. I’ve turned this off on my development machine but it’s obviously advised to have it enabled on production machines. That aside, it’s easy to turn off… If you’re using Vista you [...]