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...
2019-08-01 (first published: 2019-07-10)
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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...
2019-07-23
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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...
2019-07-18 (first published: 2019-07-03)
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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.
2019-07-15 (first published: 2019-07-02)
1,290 reads
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...
2019-07-11
102 reads
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...
2019-07-11
4,220 reads
What about orphaned windows users?
I should start off by mentioning that this post is applicable to sql server versions 2012 and up. If you have an older version of sql server, the solution...
2019-07-09 (first published: 2019-06-26)
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Powershell script to find SQL Server instances on remote servers
This is actually part 2 of a process I am creating to automatically discover SQL Server instances in an Active Directory domain. So there will be a series of...
2019-06-28
7,591 reads
Find clustered index on non primary key columns
First, some blah... blah... blah...
By default when a primary key constrained is created on a table/view, SQL Server automatically creates a unique clustered in order to enforce it. And...
2019-06-27
81 reads
Query machine name of the sql server instance - the hard or the harder way
I was at a client where they are using non-Microsoft clustering technology to achieve the high availability of SQL Server instances....
2019-06-26 (first published: 2019-06-13)
1,750 reads
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Adding new column with DEFAULT II
Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers