How to get the Active Directory user password policy values

Recently I have had to troubleshoot quite a bit of SQL login issues and often times the issue was with the users active directory user account.I was aware the...

What SQL Server Agent Alerts Do I have setup?

I am in a situation where I have to incorporate SQL Server Agent alerts in my monitoring and alerting strategy.I needed a query (DMV) to get details on what...

Finding out the most cached database in the buffer cache - The DMV Way

While there are many ways and criteria to find out what database is the most used, under optimized, trouble maker etc....., here is one more to find out the...

A simple powershell script to look up server hardware and OS information

This is a simple powershell script to query and display hardware and OS information from a remote computer.

It uses CIM (Common Information Model) that is available since Powershell version 3 so as long as you have version 3 and up, you should be able to run this script against any server that you have access to.

SQL Server Metadata using Powershell

If you are new at your job or a new client you would like to gather and review the sql server meta data to understand the environment and get...

A simple powershell script to look up server hardware and OS information

This is a simple powershell script to query and display hardware and OS information from a remote computer.It uses CIM (Common Information Model) that is available since Powershell version...

Powershell script to get list of databases on a server

At one of my clients I received an email from one of the IT Project Managers asking a simple question:"Can you please let us know which databases reside on...

Look up AD user properties using powershell

I realize that this is a bit of a lengthy script for something that you can use a one liner in the power shell:

Example:

Get-ADUser

But I needed to highlight certain properties of given user and take certain actions based on the values. And the result is this power shell script.

Get email alert when number of queries waiting for CPU exceeds thresold

You may have situations where the CPU % usage is well below the alert threshold but still queries are running slow because they are waiting for CPU to be...

Powershell one liner to export data directly from SQL Server to Excel

Most of the times I use the CSV files whenever I need to import or export SQL Server data. And then if I need to do further analysis on...