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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Powershell script to find new servers in an AD domain

This is actually part of a process I am creating to automatically discover SQL Server instances in an Active Directory domain. So there...

Do you have rarely used indexes that are hurting performance of writes?

We know that indexes are necessary for query performance but comes with overhead during DML operations. Usually, the overhead is worth the performance gain we get out of them....

Using Extended Events To Capture Backup and Restore Progress

 If you are running a DATABASE BACKUP or RESTORE command manually, SQL Server will show you the progress at a specified % completion interval. For the BACKUP, the default is...