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PowerShell

Creating a PowerShell Module from a DBA’s Perspective

September 26, 2017October 21, 2017By Tracy Boggiano

Problem The last T-SQL Tuesday a lot of data professionals shared their favorite PowerShell scripts including functions, but some DBAs are new to PowerShell and don’t know how to use the functions.  So this post will cover how to create a PowerShell module so you can store the functions you

Automation Scripts

Automatically Fixing High VLF Count on SQL Server 2012+

September 19, 2017November 6, 2017By Tracy Boggiano

The Problem Our databases autogrow because we have thousands of databases and before we know we have databases with high VLF counts in the transaction logs.  If you don’t know why that is bad refer to the resources section of this article. Update – November 5, 2017 I have added

T-SQL Tuesday
Automation PowerShell Scripts

T-SQL Tuesday #94 – Automation Through PowerShell Checking the Status of AGs

September 12, 2017By Tracy Boggiano

This month Rob Sewell (Twitter | Blog) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday and wants us to automate more with PowerShell or at least learn PowerShell. My favorite thing to automate using PowerShell is checking on the status of things on multiple servers.  For example, after patching your environment running a quick

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