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Dropping SQL Users with PowerShell
As you may have noticed, I love PowerShell! I have developed a series of functions over time which save me time and effort whilst still enabling me to provide a good service to my customers. I keep...
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Searching the SQL Error Log with PowerShell
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. Here is another script which I use to save me time and effort during my daily workload enabling me to spend more time on more important (to me)...
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Show The Last Backups On A Server with PowerShell
Another day another PowerShell Box of Tricks post Auditors, managers and bosses often want proof of following processes successfully so when they come knocking on my door(I don’t have a door, it’s...
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Add User to SQL Server Database Role with PowerShell and Quickly Creating...
Having created Windows Users or SQL Users using the last two days posts, today we shall add them to a role on a database. As I discussed previously I believe that to follow good practice I try to...
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Show Windows Updates Locally With PowerShell
I wanted to be able to quickly show the Windows Updates on a server. This came about during a discussion about auditing. Of course, there is no point in re-inventing the wheel so I had a quick Google...
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Starting My Azure SQL Server VMs with PowerShell
The last post about Launching Azure VMs with PowerShell made someone ask me to explain how I start my Azure VMs normally so here goes. When I decide to write a blog post or develop and test a script...
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Dropping All Tables From A SQL Database with PowerShell
This post could also have been titled confusion with foreach or For-EachObject The scenario – Having created a blank database a number of users and permissions for an external consultant to create a...
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How I Check Hundreds of SQL Agent Jobs in 60 Seconds with Powershell
Checking that your Agent Jobs have completed successfully is a vital part of any DBA’s responsibility. It is essential to ensure that all of the hard work you have put into setting up the jobs can be...
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Refreshing A SQL Mirrored Database Using Powershell
SQL mirroring is a means of providing high availability for your SQL database. It is available in Standard Edition and although the feature is deprecated it is still widely utilised. You can read...
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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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Emailing Disk Space Alerting With Powershell
A DBA doesn’t want to run out of space on their servers, even in their labs! To avoid this happening I wrote a Powershell script to provide some alerts by email. This is the script and how I worked...
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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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Making a Change Log Easier With PowerShell
Having a Change Log is a good thing. A quick and simple place to find out what has changed on a server and when. This can be invaluable when troubleshooting, matching a change to a symptom especially...
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Show AutoGrowth Events with Powershell to CSV
This week I was reading Pinal Daves post about Autogrowth Events http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2015/02/03/sql-server-script-whenwho-did-auto-grow-for-the-database/ as it happened I had a requirement to...
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Triggering a System Center Configuration Manager deployment task
A slightly different topic today. Once you have built up knowledge, you become the person that people ask to solve things. This is something I really enjoy, taking a problem and solving it for people...
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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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Installing and upgrading default scripts automation – part one – Introduction
First I must say thank you to all of the wonderful people who have put time and effort into providing free tools and scripts to enable not only myself but all SQL DBAs to ease their work. For this...
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Setting Up and Using Azure VM SQL Automated Backup (and Restore)
This weekend I was creating some Azure VMs to test and was required to use the GUI for some screenshots. I have always used my Powershell scripts described here to create my test systems and with a new...
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Using Power Bi with my DBA Database
Every good DBA should have a DBA database. A place to store information about all of their instances and databases. I have an InstanceList table which looks like this CREATE TABLE [dbo].[InstanceList](...
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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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