new year, new standardized coding style
First, I’d like to thank everyone for a super amazing year! 🎉 Back at the start of 2016, GitHub reports that there were two contributors to the dbatools repository and …
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new release – schleem
In this release, we gained 4 new contributors to the dbatools master repository for a grand total of of 33! We even added 4 new Major Contributors to the team. …
Video: Contributing to dbatools & dbareports using GitHub Desktop
Recently, I presented to the Philadelphia PowerShell User Group about Contributing to Open Source PowerShell projects using GitHub Desktop. I chose this topic because a number of people have asked …
new release – antsinmyeyesjohnson
In this release (two in one month, woo!), we gained 3 new contributors to the dbatools master repository for a grand total of of 29! We also added a shortcuts …
new release – mrmeeseeks
In this month’s release, we gained 6 new contributors to the dbatools master repository for a grand total of of 26! This was likely the result of moving the repository …
we’re now releasing monthly! here’s september’s batch.
September has been an incredibly busy month for dbatools. We’ve created a new organization on GitHub called the SQL Server Community Collaborative and as the name suggests, we welcome you …
scheduling a migration
Hey, Chrissy here. Recently, I had great success with scheduling a database migration and wanted to let you know how I did it in case you have a similar requirement. …
another batch of new commands now available!
dbatools is not only intended to be a great migration tool, but also a toolset to help DBAs follow best practices. Check out all the new commands in this batch, …
new prefix for many dbatools commands
When I first began working on dbatools, I was aware of the suggestion to use a distinct prefix in PowerShell, but chose to use Sql for its universal recognition. That …
new best practices commands now available
So many SQL Server and PowerShell pros have joined the dbatools team and we’re producing well designed PowerShell commands like mad! dbatools is not only intended to be a great …