A collection of links and resources related to my PASS Data Community Summit 2021 presentation Backup Basics with PowerShell and dbatools including bonus content! Resources dbatools main site dbatools documentation How to remove old versions of dbatools from your system SQL Server Community Slack (join #dbatools) Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches GitHub repository…
Read More PASS Data Community Summit 2021 Presentation ResourcesOver the summer, I spent some (a lot of) time working on updates to a script at work which runs multiple processes in parallel. Everything seemed to work OK for a while, but then everything broke. It broke right around the time dbatools 1.1 dropped, so I started thinking that something must have changed there.…
Read More Lesson Learned From Multi-Threading with dbatoolsI am thrilled to announce that I will be speaking at this year’s PASS Data Community Summit! This year’s event runs November 8th through 12th. I am thrilled to announce that I will be speaking at this year’s PASS Data Community Summit! As November approaches, the schedule as well as the details of my session…
Read More PASS Data Community Summit 2021 – I’m Speaking!I had the honor of presenting a new session, Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools, at the first Ohio North Database Training meeting this evening. Thank you to the group leaders for the opportunity and to everyone who attended. Because this was both a brand new session and an attempt at a new way of…
Read More Slides & Demos for Backup Basics with PowerShell & dbatoolsA former colleague emailed me with a question about retaining/fixing database users and permissions after restoring a database. They were copying a database from one instance to another, with different logins, users, and permissions between the two instances. Backup & restore to copy the database is easy enough, but because users & permissions are kept…
Read More Restoring Database Users After Copying the DatabaseI’ve been meaning to write something this post for a while but the stars have aligned this week. Garry Bargsley (blog | twitter) published a post about making a schema-only copy of a database on the day that I needed to solve that exact problem. But that’s not what this is about. It’s just a…
Read More Shell to Script ShortcutA little while back, I offered up a one-liner to scan your SQL Server instances and report which ones are out of date. But what if you need to take the next step, determining which updates need to be downloaded? That’s exactly what Josh asked on the SQL Community Slack recently. Can Test-DbaBuild also bring…
Read More Finding & Downloading Required SQL Server UpdatesIt turns out I was doing this all wrong for months. For the longest time, I’ve been checking my SQL Server instances to see what needs patching with Test-DbaBuild from the dbatools PowerShell module. But the result was always the same – it never returned a Service Pack or Cumulative Update target. I glossed over…
Read More Checking for SQL Server Updates with dbatoolsdbatools has a lot of functions. A lot. Over 550. There is a great command index on the website, and the documentation gets updated every time a new version is published. But sometimes, it feels like you can’t find what you need unless you already know the name of the thing you’re looking for. Other…
Read More Does dbatools Have a Function for That?Or: Andy Authors An Amazing Alliteration Do enough work with PowerShell and you’ll build up a decent collection of modules installed from the gallery into either your computer or your user profile (or maybe both!). Here are two one-liners to help keep things up to date and tidy.
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