PowerShell: Manipulating & Copying File Permissions In Windows

The Mystery Recently a folder within a SMB share on the Windows Server (network share) displayed only certain files but not others for a certain user. For an administrator, the share displayed all the files in the folder. Obviously, there is some difference in the permissions, but what? Examining the difference between the files (using …

SQL Server: SSMS – Hung Symptoms – Mouse-clicks Don’t Register Due To Hidden Modal Window Behind SSMS

I am not sure if run into this but I do often enough on my SSMS 17.9.1 version - suddenly, the SSMS window will not register any mouse-clicks although it will seemingly look fine. The reason is because there is a Modal Window somewhere hidden. Sometimes, ALT-TAB followed by ESC will do the trick but not …

Oracle: Resolve “ORA-01704: string literal too long” and/or Non-ANSI Language Character Display Issues

You may experience issues when it comes to special characters. It could be DML (Insert/Update/Delete) where the data is not stored properly (or) display related (SELECT) where the characters do not display correctly as they are stored in the database. You could resolve both. Please continue reading on how to. Straight-forward case: The error "ORA-01704: …

PowerShell: SQL Server Services Startup Mode Change

This is one of those extremely simple posts where everyone who does PowerShell knows how ridiculously simple it is to do and you will too today. You will look like a magician to the uninitiated. Today, I had about 5 hosts running 4 instances of SQL Server each and I had to Stop all SQL …

Oracle On Windows – Simple Timeout To Crisis To Moving Data Files to Another Drive

Update 2018/11/19: In 12c, you can now do this operation online. Please check out the “ALTER DATABASE MOVE DATAFILE” command which moves the file without you having to copy. Check it out here. I wanted to do a small post on using the DOS command line tool ADRCI to quickly locate problems from the alert log …