PowerShell: Prevent Accidental Runs of Scripts

The problem and it's a big one! You might want to read this to the end! You are into PowerShell and have a ton of scripts. The problem is some of them run things that are not meant to be run at any time by anyone except you when you first set it up 🙂 …

SQL Server: DROP All But A Few Tables With PowerShell (or DROP ALL)

Recently, I received a request to backup a dozen tables or so tables out of 12 thousand tables. I had to retain all the indexes, statistics etc. The goal was to hand this over to the vendor for analysis as a database backup. I could have copied the selected tables over to a new database …

Oracle Tip – EXECUTE IMMEDIATE With Bind Variable Input In Dynamic SQL

Caution: If there is no need to use a dynamic SQL, you should always use regular non-dynamic SQL. This is a bad usage of dynamic SQL and I am only doing so to illustrate the use of bind variables. The task: Again, I just wanted to provide a basic example that shows the usage of EXECUTE …

Oracle – Return SELECT Statement Results Like SQL Server SP’s – Using Pipelined Functions

Note: You can find a simpler version of this in my answer on StackOverflow. Returning SELECT statement results from procedures/functions? Everyone is familiar with Oracle functions that return basic data types (simple values with no internal components). Although rarely used, Oracle functions are however capable of returning more complex data types like cursors, arrays and …