One of my favorite things in PowerShell (and other languages) is the switch statement. It's clean and a much better alternative to a ton of if elses. Ever had this happen? 1if ($state -eq -1) 2{ 3$diskstate = "Unknown" 4} 5elseif ($state -eq 0) 6{ 7$diskstate = "Inherited" 8} 9elseif ($state -eq 1) 10{ …

Repost from dbatools.io: Recently, I presented to the Philadelphia PowerShell User Group about Contributing to Open Source PowerShell projects using GitHub Desktop. I chose this topic because a number of people have asked for step-by-step instructions on how to work with GitHub. I love the command line, but with Git? I …

In my previous post, I presented the template I use anytime I need to add multithreading to my scripts. Recently, I had a request to add multi-threading to Read-DbaBackupHeader. This was the first runspace in which I had to output the results from the runspace to the host -- usually I just needed commands to run in the …

Last year, I was looking into multi-threading in PowerShell and, with the help of Dr. Tobias Weltner, Boe Prox and Martin Pugh ultimately decided on runspaces. Then, I presented at psconf.eu about using runspaces to speed up SQL Server/CSV imports. Runspaces took me from about 90,000 rows per second to 230,000 rows per …

Hey yall! I invited one of the most active dbatools developers, Cláudio Silva, to do a guest post about his motivation for joining the team and why he built this particular command. So without further ado... here's Cláudio :D Hi everyone my name is Cláudio Silva, I'm a MS SQL Server DBA, and have worked with SQL …

Have you seen the SQL Server Tools team's post about the PowerShell module for SQL Server? There are TWENTY FIVE new cmdlets! TWENTY FIVE! That's a 53% increase over the previous 46 cmdlets. It looks like the SQL Server community is well on its way to becoming proper citizens in the PowerShell world, and we'll reach …

I am still so floored by the additions and enhancements made to the module formerly known as SQLPS, now known as SqlServer. Not only do the new additions bring the total number of cmdlets from 46 to 71, but they align what we voted for on the Trello board. That's a 54% increase in the number of cmdlets! We'll be up to …

Today's blog post is part of T-SQL Tuesday. T-SQL Tuesday is the brainchild of Adam Machanic. It is a monthly blog party on the second Tuesday of each month. Everyone is welcome to participate. sp_help_revlogin is now old enough to drive a car By now in your career, you may have needed to migrate a few databases and …

I always forget how to do this, and Aleksandar Nikolić posted a really beautiful answer on Powershell.com For a file: 1-split (Get-Content .\test.txt | Out-String) | 2Where-Object { $_ -eq "test" } | Measure-Object | 3Select-Object -exp count For a string: 1$html.content -split …

Earlier this week, I was trying to determine people's feelings about Microsoft Connect by looking through Twitter. A few scrolls down, and I came upon this @Ms_Alaina My problem is I sometimes stumble upon a Connect item I filed in 2008, and have no idea when it was closed as fixed. — Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) …