Tag Archives: powershell

Escaping a Dollar Sign in PoSh–#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on November 23, 2016 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I’ve been working more with PowerShell lately and ran into a problem I thought would be easy, but it … Continue reading →

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More dbatools–Get-DbaTcpPort

Posted on November 14, 2016 by way0utwest

After the MVP Summit, I was excited to check out more code and features in all aspects of SQL Server, but since I’d had a quick conversation with Aaron Nelson and Chrissy LeMaire, I decided to tackle another part of … Continue reading →

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Getting dbatools in Powershell

Posted on October 25, 2016 by way0utwest

I had the chance to watch dbatools in action recently at SQL Saturday Cambridge. I watched a presentation from Chrissy LeMaire (@cl) that was impressive in how easy she made a number of DDL type changes between instances. I decided … Continue reading →

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Rename a Server with PowerShell

Posted on October 3, 2016 by way0utwest

I’m sure many people are experimenting with VMs and SQL Server. If you’re like me, many of you just default to installing Windows 7/10 or Windows Server xx Standard for your testing. Those systems work fine, but I’ve been trying … Continue reading →

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