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  • a huge thanks

    Aug 22, 2018 · 1 min read  ·
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    Yesterday, I presented at PSPowerHour and during my intro, my iPad's volume turned up so I got distracted when talking about something that really meant a lot to me. And I'm a bit bummed that I wasn't able to properly convey how much it meant that I was awarded as a PowerShell Community Hero earlier this year. I was …


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  • T-SQL Tuesday #104: Code I Would Hate To Live Without

    Jul 10, 2018 · 2 min read  ·
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    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. This month’s T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by my buddy and YouTube star Bert Wagner (blog | twitter), is all about the SQL Server …


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  • TSQL Tuesday #96: Folks Who Have Made a Difference

    Nov 14, 2017 · 5 min read  ·
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    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. This month’s T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by Ewald Cress‏ (blog | twitter), is all about people who have made a difference in our …


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  • SQL PowerShell Pros: Submit Your Abstracts for PASS Summit!

    May 20, 2017 · 2 min read  ·
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    Recently, PASS announced their first round of speakers for Summit 2017 speakers and I'm on the list! I'm particularly excited because Summit is the largest SQL Server event in the world and it's looking like PowerShell will be getting some great exposure this year. In addition to announcing that I'll be speaking, PASS …


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  • PowerShell Gallery Metapackages

    May 9, 2017 · 4 min read  ·
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    Recently, I was approached by supa-famous Joey Aiello of the PowerShell team at my favorite conference ever, PSConf.eu. So Joey comes up and says "Chrissy, Aaron Nelson has pretty much required me to talk to you. The SQL Community has the #1 PowerShell UserVoice request. We see that - we've heard you, The People …


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  • SSMS Complains of "Inconsistent Line Endings" with PowerShell Output

    Apr 13, 2017 · 1 min read  ·
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    If you've used Out-File, Set-Content or Add-Content to create a SQL file, you may notice that SQL Server Management Studio complains about normalizing the line breaks. If you see this, simply using -Encoding UTF8 for your output instead of ASCII, the default, will solve the problem.


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  • T-SQL Tuesday: The Cloud, Globalization and Automation

    Apr 11, 2017 · 4 min read  ·
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    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. This month’s T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by Koen Verbeeck (blog | twitter), is all about how technology has changed a lot in the …


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  • Loading SMO in Your SQL Server-centric PowerShell Modules

    Dec 23, 2016 · 3 min read  ·
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    In a recent version of PowerShell, Publish-Module, which publishes modules to the Gallery began requiring fully qualified Assembly names such as "Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo, Version=$smoversion, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91". Previously, it was sufficient just to use short names such as …


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  • Find Every Parameter for Every Command in a PowerShell Module

    Dec 20, 2016 · 1 min read  ·
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    We're currently working on standardizing our documentation for dbatools and I needed a list of all of the parameters we use. Here's how I did it (well, I did it an uglier way then Aaron made it prettier ;)) 1Get-Command -Module dbatools -CommandType Function | 2ForEach-Object { $_.Parameters.Values.Name } | 3Sort …


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  • dbatools to the backup/restore rescue

    Dec 13, 2016 · 5 min read  ·
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    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. intro dbatools has been around since 2014. At first, it started with one contributor and was solely dedicated to migrating SQL …


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Chrissy LeMaire

SQL & PowerShell MVP. GitHub Star. Creator of dbatools. Need to oil my knees.

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dbatools

dbatools is an awesome PowerShell module that helps you migrate entire instances with a single command, plus a whole lot more.

available from dbatools.io and github

dbachecks

dbachecks validates SQL Server environments using crowdsourced DBA checklists and outputs to Power BI and is available on github.com 📊

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recent posts

  • Install-DbaMaintenanceSolution now supports auto-scheduling
  • [Solved] OmniSharp.Extensions.JsonRpc.RpcErrorException in VS Code Dev Containers for PowerShell-based Azure Functions
  • Exploring GitHub Copilot Chat
  • Offline Installation of dbatools 2.0 with the dbatools.library Dependency
  • New Encryption and Certificate Defaults in Microsoft's SQL Server Connection Provider
  • What's new and different in dbatools 2.0
  • Don't waste your time with ($PSEdition -eq 'Core') in your PowerShell module manifest/psd1
  • Exploring faster PowerShell import times.. again

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