hacktoberfest – dbatools edition
During the month of October 2018 DigitalOcean is again running Hacktoberfest to support open source projects. They are offering a limited edition T-Shirt for any person making five pull requests …
more updates
Just a quick note that we’ve made more changes to align with 1.0, now available in version 0.9.453. Renamed Log Shipping Get-DbaDbLogShipError Invoke-DbaDbLogShipping Invoke-DbaDbLogShipRecovery Test-DbaDbLogShipStatus Registered Servers (Central Management Server) …
getting started with powershell
Now that you’ve convinced your security team that PowerShell improves your security posture, it’s time to learn PowerShell if you haven’t already.
talking to your security team about powershell and dbatools
If you’re questioned about PowerShell or dbatools, here are some handy facts to help prove we can help make your administration more, not less, secure.
sql server migration enhancements
A while back, I added some new features to our migration commands but I forgot to blog about them. Then, I used one of the new features for a fast …
simplifying disaster recovery with dbatools
dbatools can help ease your DR, all in one convenient command. No, not good ol’ Export-DbaScript which is essentially the command line equivalent of the screenshot above.
Now, dbatools offers a whole new command, written specifically for the DR presentation: Export-DbaInstance
new docs site and updated command index
We’ve been busy the past few days and have huge updates to share. new docs site First, our new beta docs site is now up at docs.dbatools.io! Please check it …
new release with significant but non-breaking changes
Marching onward to dbatools 1.0, a ton of commands have been renamed to align with our now mature naming scheme. These changes were made in today’s release, version 0.9.410 aka …
a few other community tools
Last night’s #PSPowerHour made me realize I should highlight a few awesome projects I’ve come across recently. PSDatabaseClone PSDatabaseClone was created by Sander Stad. PSDatabaseClone is a PowerShell module for …
using dacpac functions to clone sql server databases
Hey all! Kirill Kravtsov, here. I’m a SQL Server DBA that is passionate about automation and PowerShell. I’m also a major contributor to dbatools and creator of the dbops module, …