Parameters and Prompts

When you want the best (or worst) of both worlds…

Words: 929

Time to read: ~ 5 minutes

TL;DR: Create a wrapper function that calls your properly constructed one. 🙂

Update: 21-Sep-2018 – u/Ta11ow and u/Lee_Dailey brought up two succinct points about using Read-Host as default parameters and the more appropriate method would be to create a “wrapper” function over the parameter function.
Also created a TL;DR.

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TSQL Tuesday 106 – Trigger Headaches or Happiness: Capturing Database Creations.

I see your hidden database table trigger and raise you a more hidden server one!

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Time to read: ~ 1.5 minutes

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Change Read-Host to Confirm!

Words: 884

Time to read: ~ 4 minutes

Update: 29-Aug-2018 – Thanks to the good folks in reddit (u/TheIncorrigible1 & u/Ta11ow) who pointed out that Pause is a function, not an alias & a really cool addition to the confirm attribute. Also added the second step I left out of the 1st draft (oops).

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Automating Conference Speaker Notifications

In case I, as a volunteer, fall asleep from lack of coffee 🙂

Words: 367

Time to read: ~ 2 minutes

Link to script: https://github.com/shaneis/RandomScripts/commit/9d6967fa56a75342f00e5ddbcd066adc387f2618

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