Dbachecks

PowerShell Precon at PASS Summit 2018

Chrissy LeMaire

Congrats to our teammate Rob Sewell! Rob was invited by PASS to present about PowerShell at PASS Summit 2018 on Tuesday, November 6 2018. In his day-long session, Rob will talk about a variety of super interesting subjects including: dbachecks, PowerShell module-making, GitHub, VSTS, and dbatools. Rob is a vibrant, knowledgeable speaker and I can’t recommend this precon enough! I learn a ton every time that Rob and I present together.

dbachecks Commands

Chrissy LeMaire

dbachecks is a new PowerShell module from the SQL Server Community! For more information, read introducing dbachecks. As of version v1.0, dbachecks contains 15 commands. This article provides an overview of these commands. Rob Sewell offers a fantastic deep-dive article that explains the commands below in greater depth. Usage Usage can be approached in two ways: Run Directly From the Command Line As simple as Invoke-DbcCheck -SqlInstance sqlprod01 -Checks SuspectPage, LastBackup

Introducing dbachecks - A New Module From the dbatools Team!

Chrissy LeMaire

In mid-December, we began working on a new PowerShell module for the SQL Server Community. This free and open-source project can be found in the SQL Server Community Collaborative’s repository. Contributions from the community are welcomed and encouraged! Intro dbachecks is a framework created by and for SQL Server pros who need to validate their environments. Basically, we all share similar checklists and mostly just the server names and RPO/RTO/etc change.

T-SQL Tuesday and New Module Teaser

Chrissy LeMaire

Today’s blog post is part of T-SQL Tuesday. T-SQL Tuesday is the brainchild of Adam Machanic. It is a blog party on the second Tuesday of each month. Everyone is welcomed to participate. This month’s T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by Arun Sirpal (blog), is all about overcoming technical challenges. 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.