PowerShell at SQL Bits!
A number of dbatools contributors will be presenting at SQL Bits next week in London! To start, Rob Sewell and I will be presenting a PowerShell and dbatools heavy precon …
t-sql tuesday and new module teaser
The challenge I always try to solve my technical issues with natively available (aka Microsoft) solutions. It’s one of the many reasons I love PowerShell. When it comes to monitoring, …
website updates
We’ve updated the site a bit and wanted to let you know. Getting Started Finally! The Getting Started page has accurate information, way more code samples and useful links. So …
new release – picklerick
I have to wake up at 3am to go to the airport and start a solid two weeks of vacation, so I’ll keep this incredibly short. Tonight, we released picklerick. …
our prompt
A few months back, dbatools wizard Fred created a prompt that was so awesome, I never had to use Measure-Command again. It was cool enough that a number of us …
walk-thru: installing modules from the powershell gallery
It’s easy for PowerShell toolmakers to forget that new users may have questions about ExecutionPolicy and Repositories. If dbatools is the first module you’ve ever installed and used, this guide is intended to help you with all of your questions and concerns.
pass summit powershell precon agenda now available
We’ve been working on our precon and we’re super excited to share the agenda with you! In case you missed it dbatools teammates Constantine Kokkinos, Rob Sewell and I will …
scheduling powershell tasks with sql agent
We’ve had a lot of people ask about the best way to schedule dbatools tasks in SQL Server Agent. Here are our suggestions.
287 commands and counting
So many of these commands are insanely useful and I can’t thank our 78 (!!) contributors enough. Also, Shawn Melton, Andy Levy and Simone Bizzotto have recently invested extra insane-o hours into moving the project forward and I’d like to give them a special shout out.
performing a migration with every commit: testing with pester and appveyor
not a snoozefest You may be thinking “oh man, a post about testing. booooring!” I used to, too, but have since come around and now find that creating tests is …