Getting the total number of inserted rows for SqlBulkCopy should be easier, but I believe the easiest (and fastest) is by using reflection and some C# code within your PowerShell script. Thanks to user601543 at stackoverflow, I was able translate his code for use within one of my own scripts. …

Recently, I did a webcast for the PowerShell Virtual Chapter of PASS on Simplifying SQL Server Migrations using PowerShell. If you're planning for a SQL Server migration, I wrote a bunch of scripts that can help, and put them all on github.

Check out the sqlmigration repository, and the accompanying PowerPoint Slides. …

Each morning when I get into the office, I check performance graphs in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA - formerly Confio Ignite).  Monday mornings are usually the most important, because I run full system maintenance on a specific monitored database on Sunday.  Monday is the first day of heavy utilization …

I just released a new PowerShell script, Get-SQLServerKeys.ps1. The script works works with several versions of SQL Server (2005-2014), and can use Central Management Server, a text file, or just a string of servers as input. …

As a SQL Server DBA, I'm used to SQL being able to perform aliasing, super fast subselects, and easy aggregation. My most recent project, Invoke-Locate.ps1, however, uses SQLite because of its portability and speed when performing simple selects and inserts. The downside is that SQLite doesn't handle some subselects …

This is mostly for my reference, but you can use it, too :)

Create Basic Datatable

 1$dt = New-Object System.Data.Datatable
 2[void]$dt.Columns.Add("First")
 3[void]$dt.Columns.Add("Second")
 4[void]$dt.Columns.Add("Third")
 5
 6# Add a row manually
 7 …

If you've ever tried to use PowerShell's Import-CSV with large files, you know that it can exhaust all of your RAM. Previously, I created a script on ScriptCenter that used an alternative technique to import large CSV files, and even imported them into SQL Server at a rate of 1.7 million rows a minute. I've now gotten …

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 …

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 …

Microsoft ConnectM isn't letting me sign in to post this workaround, but I just ran into a bug with the OleDbProviderSettings within SMO. …