Adventures In PowerShell

I tried to look up some instructions for Powershell scripting, on working with MS Access databases (I know - look, I work with what I've got) and every result was some LLM-generated bullshit that did not work, was full of inconsistent syntax and included a ton of unneccessary steps. Pieces of the example worked, but not entirely.

Some forum posts were just live humans re-posting the same non-functional code, or variations thereof. I'm thinking this is partly because LLMs can only output things they have previously seen, so the dearth of actual examples online would help explain this.

I now need to do some reading on ADO and Jet. I might post the script when I'm done, but I don't know yet. I'm always mortified by the prospect of posting my code for others to see.

PUBLISHED: 2026-06-04

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