With PowerShell in one hand, and WMI in the other, DBAs can do almost anything in their Window's environments, and Laerte Junior is using his powers for good. He built a highly precise, highly configurable alerting system for his servers, and now shows us exactly how he did it.
2011-08-11
3,128 reads
For an experienced programmer to learn a new language can be a journey quite like Alice's in wonderland. Paradoxes, unexpected twists, blind tangents, bafflements and nice surprises. Michael Sorens comes to the rescue of anyone learning PowerShell with an explanation of how to use PowerShell functions.
2011-08-03
2,338 reads
I want to determine who the local administrators are on each of my SQL Servers. Basically, I'd like a nightly job to run against each of my SQL Servers and produce a list of admins for each server for my review. How can I do this?
2011-06-29
2,595 reads
When you are first learning PowerShell, it often seems to be an 'Alice through the looking-glass' world. Just the simple process of comparing and selecting strings can seem strangely obtuse. Michael turns the looking-glass into wonderland with his wall-chart of the PowerShell string-comparison operators and syntax
2011-06-23
3,099 reads
This powershell script updates the server name specified in connections within a SQL 2005 SSIS package
2011-06-24 (first published: 2011-06-22)
966 reads
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate a custom scripting framework which enables the management of SQLServer databases from a Windows PowerShell session and also to extend Powershell’s flexibility by creating a set of commands customized to our needs. I will call this framework comprised of a library of modules and functions specialized to manage SQLServer the DBA profile.
2011-06-06
3,307 reads
This article takes a look at how PowerShell can speed up the process of parsing large log files.
2011-05-24
8,993 reads
Learn the easy way, and the hard way, to find the free space in each data file with Powershell expert Aaron Nelson.
2011-05-11
6,461 reads
Learn how to get setup with PowerShell and SQLPSX from MVP Aaron Nelson, one of the experts teaching us how to use Powershell for SQL Server.
2012-01-02 (first published: 2011-05-10)
15,847 reads
This article will show a way to find all SQL Servers, particularly those that have been forgotten about or lost.
2013-07-29 (first published: 2011-04-19)
15,675 reads
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