Aaron Hoffman's Blog

Microsoft Azure SQL only allows connections from whitelisted IP addresses. My ISP seemed to change my external/public IP address daily. The combination of these two things was very annoying for me. I assembled the powershell script below to make my life a little easier. It updates the firewall rule for each Azure SQL instance, and ensures they are all set to my current IP address. Note: There are two categories of Azure PowerShell scripts/cmdlets. There are Resource Management cmdlets and Service Management cmdlets. I will describe how to perform this task with both below: Service Management (the older way) 1. Install and Configure  https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell#installation 2. Execute Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile to get the publishsettings file for the subscription you're going to be working with (a browser window will open, select the profile there. Note: you can add multiple publish settings.). 3. Execute Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile and pr

I had a need to convert the HEX output from SQL Server Management Studio's Results to Grid output of a varbinary column  back to the byte array of the file it represented. I couldn't find an all-in-one script online, so I thought I'd create this C# gist. (original parse script here ) https://gist.github.com/aaronhoffman/ad16b27d14e2f5d7e16c Hope this helps, Aaron

I had a need to get the total count of all lines, for a given set of .csv files. For example, there are 5 files each with 1000 lines, I wanted a script that would output: 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000. I could not find a script or command to do this, so I wrote one in PowerShell. Enjoy List File Line Count For Files in a Directory that Match a Given Pattern https://gist.github.com/aaronhoffman/416b88e64b970c4c9cb4 hope this helps, Aaron