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 …
Read MoreRecently, 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 …
Read MoreRecently, 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 …
Read MoreIf 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.
Read MoreToday'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 …
Read MoreIn 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 …
Read MoreWe'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 { $_.Parameters.Values.Name } | 3Sort …
Read MoreToday's blog post is part of T-SQL Tuesday. T-SQL Tuesday is the brainchild of Adam Machanic. It is a monthly blog party on the second Tuesday of each month. Everyone is welcome to participate. intro dbatools has been around since 2014. At first, it started with one contributor and was solely dedicated to migrating …
Read MoreOne of my favorite things in PowerShell (and other languages) is the switch statement. It's clean and a much better alternative to a ton of if elses. Ever had this happen? 1if ($state -eq -1) 2{ 3 $diskstate = "Unknown" 4} 5elseif ($state -eq 0) 6{ 7 $diskstate = "Inherited" 8} 9elseif ($state -eq 1) …
Read MoreRepost 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 …
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