Tag: Windows

  • Format Date in DOS Command Line

    For any dos batch files that I run on a regular basis I commonly want to create a folder or a text file with the current date in the file name. I’m a purist and I like my dates formatted as YYYYMMDD so that an alphabetic sort is also chronological.

    The following script will place the current date into a variable in the required format.

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  • Tell Me When The DB Is Back

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    Creative Commons License photo credit: Tim Morgan
    Today at work the development DB went down.
    My days of fixing databases are long gone, but the guys that are are not so good at letting everyone know that the database is back up.
    I created this windows batch script to let me know.
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