The SQL Server PowerShell Provider
This is an old post that’s been sitting in my queue for a long time, and I just finally thought I’d publish it, for what it’s worth. The word on the street was that SQL Server 2008’s PowerShell support is going to be limited. I’m here to say: it’s not so much limited, as it [...]
Recursion in PowerShell … slow
So, I posted a story about Fibonacci sequences and noticed that the recursion in PowerShell is really rather slow. But I also noticed something interesting — I had expected that recursing using a function would be a little cheaper (and faster) than recursing using the pipeline, and it turns out that it’s not. At all. [...]
Reservoir sampling and performance considerations
I started this post a few weeks ago, but never quite got around to posting it, and then I saw today that Dmitry wrote about the memory problems with using measure-object and I thought this would be a great time to post this. Essentially, this is a continuation of my exploration of development in the [...]