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Grabbing code from Powershell Download Script and Powershell Extract Zip Files this script will download with the option of extracting the zip file. In PowerShell if you type the following you will get two examples of how to use the code.
I plan to work more on this as it is rather nasty but as a work in progress notepad if you will this is the spot for now. GitHub: https://gist.github.com/dkittell/f9080101d66834910dfd
SHOW STATUS provides server status information like Connections, Opened_tables, Bytes_received, Bytes_sent, etc. SHOW VARIABLES shows the values of MySQL system variables like time_zone, version, max_connections, etc. References: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3939803/how-to-get-mysql-server-info-using-command-line
Reference: http://www.howtogeek.com/tips/how-to-extract-zip-files-using-powershell/
Pass variables to the script Manually type values in the script execution References: http://windowsitpro.com/powershell/prompting-user-input-powershell https://teusje.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/download-file-with-powershell/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5592531/how-to-pass-an-argument-to-a-powershell-script
Microsoft SharePoint offers a web service to query and use to simplify jobs that typically you’d have to need a connection to active directory. Some Basic URLs: http://(Your SharePoint URL)/_vti_bin/UserProfileService.asmx http://(Your SharePoint URL)/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx http://(Your SharePoint URL)/_vti_bin/UserGroup.asmx From within http://(Your SharePoint URL)/_vti_bin/UserProfileService.asmx you can pull these details UserProfile_GUID, AccountName, FirstName, LastName, PreferredName, WorkPhone, Office, Department, Title,…
Recently in a project to list all the plugins in a WordPress site with their versions I had accidently added .0 on to various rows in error. This script was very helpful to correct this error Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10470471/delete-last-n-characters-from-field-in-a-sql-server-database
Reference: Laurence @ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13315756/how-to-compare-sql-strings-that-hold-version-numbers-like-net-system-version-cl
These steps are based on Ubuntu 14.10 Server 64-bit but can be applied to virtually any Debian based UNIX distribution.