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Enable CLR with Powershell
I had an email last night from someone who attended my PowerShell Box of Tricks session at SQL Saturday Exeter He was getting an error whilst trying to set CLR Enabled during an automatic install and...
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Number of VLFs and Autogrowth Settings Colour Coded to Excel with PowerShell
So you have read up on VLFs No doubt you will have read this post by Kimberly Tripp and this one and maybe this one too and you want to identify the databases in your environment which have a large...
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Changing Delay Between Responses for SQL Alerts with Powershell
So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on SQLSkills.com or maybe you have used sp_blitz and received the Blitz Result: No SQL Server Agent Alerts...
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Scheduling Ola Hallengrens Maintenance Solution Default Jobs with Powershell
If you are a SQL Server DBA you should know about Ola Hallengren and will probably have investigated his Maintenance Solution. If you haven’t please start here https://ola.hallengren.com/ You can also...
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Populating My DBA Database for Power Bi with PowerShell – Server Info
Following my last post about using Power Bi with my DBA Database I have been asked if I would share the PowerShell scripts which I use to populate my database. They are the secondary part to my...
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Populating My DBA Database for Power Bi with PowerShell – SQL Info
Following my post about using Power Bi with my DBA Database I have been asked if I would share the PowerShell scripts which I use to populate my database. In this post I will show how to create the...
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Populating My DBA Database for Power Bi with PowerShell – Databases
Following my post about using Power Bi with my DBA Database I have been asked if I would share the PowerShell scripts which I use to populate my database. In this post I will show how to create the...
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Power Bi, PowerShell and SQL Agent Jobs
Continuing my series on using Power Bi with my DBA Database I am going to show in this post how I create the most useful daily report for DBAs – The SQL Agent Job report. You can get the scripts and...
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Using PowerShell to set Extended Events Sessions to AutoStart
When you look after more than a few SQL Servers you will need to perform the same actions against a number of them and that is where PowerShell will be of great benefit. Recently I needed to ensure...
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DBA Database scripts are on Github
It started with a tweet from Dusty The second session I presented at the fantastic PowerShell Conference Europe was about using the DBA Database to automatically install DBA scripts like sp_Blitz,...
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Converting SQL Agent Job Duration to TimeSpan using PowerShell
When you look in msdb for the SQL Agent Job duration you will find that it is an int. This is also the same when you look at Get-SQLAgentJobHistory from the sqlserver module. (You can get this by...
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SQL VNext sp_configure on Windows and Linux with dbatools
This weekend I set up some SQL vNext virtual machines, two on Windows and one on Linux so that I could test some scenarios and build an availability group. IMPORTANT NOTE :- The names of dbatools...
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Quickly Creating Test Users in SQL Server with PowerShell using the sqlserver...
One of the most visited posts on my blog is nearly two and half years old now – Add User to SQL Server Database Role with PowerShell and Quickly Creating Test Users. I thought it was time to update it...
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VS Code PowerShell Snippets
Just a quick post, as much as a reminder for me as anything, but also useful to those that attended my sessions last week where I talked about snippets in PowerShell ISE Jeff Hicks wrote a post...
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Adding a PowerShell Job Step to an existing SQL Agent Job Step with PowerShell
In my last post I showed how to add a T-SQL Job step to an existing SQL Agent Job. The process is exactly the same for a PowerShell job step. As before I gathered the required jobs using...
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TSQL2sDay – Get-PostRoundup
First an apology, this round up is late! The reason for that is an error in the PowerShell testing module Pester (That’s not completely true as you shall see!!) I spoke in Stuttgart at the PowerShell...
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Populating My DBA Database for Power Bi with PowerShell – Databases
Following my post about using Power Bi with my DBA Database I have been asked if I would share the PowerShell scripts which I use to populate my database. In this post I will show how to create the...
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