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  • Professional PowerShell-based SQL Server SMO Recipes

    Jan 8, 2015 · 2 min read  ·
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    Last year, I finally started working with SMO (SQL Management Objects) within PowerShell and I absolutely love it. Below are a few recipes that I created and use extensively throughout my SQL Management scripts, which you can find on ScriptCenter. Some recipes show more than one way to perform a task. These SMO recipes …


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  • Enumerate file structure within detached MDF database file using SMO

    Jan 7, 2015 · 1 min read  ·
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    While researching how connect to a detached MDF and read the internal file structure of the internal files, including LDF files, I kept seeing suggestions for using the undocumented DBCC command DBCC checkprimaryfile. Initially, my code looked like this: 1# SQL Server is required to read the file contents 2$servername …


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  • Create Scheduled Task or Scheduled Job to Indefinitely Run a PowerShell Script Every 5 Minutes

    Jan 5, 2015 · 3 min read  ·
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    Here are two straight-forward ways to create Scheduled Tasks within Windows using PowerShell. One script creates a PowerShell Scheduled Job, and the other creates a classic Windows Scheduled Task. You can read about the differences here. PowerShell v3 and above required. Create a Scheduled Job The following script …


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  • Workaround for SMO Bug: urn could not be resolved at level OleDbProviderSetting

    Jan 3, 2015 · 1 min read  ·
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    Microsoft ConnectM isn't letting me sign in to post this workaround, but I just ran into a bug with the OleDbProviderSettings within SMO. To get around it, I used $server.Settings.OleDbProviderSettings instead of $server.OleDbProviderSettings 1$server.Settings.OleDbProviderSettings.Name.Contains("SQLOLEDB") …


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  • About Invoke-Locate, a PowerShell port of GNU findutils' locate and updatedb.

    Dec 1, 2014 · 5 min read  ·
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    Tonight, I published Invoke-Locate.ps1 to ScriptCenter because I was tired of mounting my Windows drive to my Linux servers to quickly and reliably find files. Originally, it was going to be a small script, but then I decided to trick it out, add an installer and automatic Task Scheduling to run updatedb. The installer …


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  • Downgrade SQL Server Cluster from Enterprise to Standard

    Sep 8, 2014 · 3 min read  ·
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    I'm currently working on a PowerShell/SQL set of scripts to ease SQL Server Migrations. A few of the scripts have been posted to Microsoft's ScriptCenter. Recently, one of the ScriptCenter visitors asked: Can this script be used to backup all server configuration and restore at a later date. The use case I have is that …


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  • PowerShell: Create Human-readable Shortcuts to IIS Log File Directories

    Jul 18, 2014 · 2 min read  ·
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    About 8 years ago, I wrote a blog post that provided a VBScript to create easy-to-read shortcuts to IIS Log directories. W3SVC56 just wasn't helpful enough to identify which website logs to which directory. Today, I ported that same script to PowerShell. I'm too lazy to explain, so this is what it does: Easy peasy. …


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  • Import Large CSVs into SQL Server Using PowerShell

    Jul 4, 2014 · 6 min read  ·
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    A buddy of mine was running into issues importing a 1 GB CSV of Longitudes and Latitudes available from geonames.org. The CSV contains over 9 million rows, and no matter what he did, DTS/SSIS would not import the data because of conversion issues. That's actually been happening to me a lot lately, too, so I find myself …


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  • PowerShell: Per-user VMware Thinapp Registration Login Script

    Jun 30, 2014 · 2 min read  ·
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    I'm not super familiar with ThinApping, but converted portions of this VMware login script at the request of a consultant. I tried to automate the script a bit more than the one from VMware's blog. Their script required that you put in the path to each EXE. This script will find all exes within a directory and register …


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  • [Solved]: New-WebServiceProxy / GetListItems Excessive Lookup Issue

    Oct 30, 2013 · 2 min read  ·
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    Recently, while trying to use New-WebServiceProxy to automate some SharePoint form entries, I ran into a lookup issue. First, I got this rather generic error: Exception calling "GetListItems" with "7" argument(s): "Exception of type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapServerException' was …


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Chrissy LeMaire

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

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