PowerShell

dbachecks: how to add your own checks

As a DBA I used more and more the dbachecks at customer place to validate environments. It became part of our DBA toolkit at the same place than its famous brother the dbatools.My colleague Steven Naudet did(…)

Azure Resource Inventory: Managed instance integration

Intro Let me present you in this Blog post a useful tool to asset your Azure environment and in a second step show you how to add Azure SQL managed instance in the assessment report. ARI presentation(…)

How to automatically download last SQL Server SP and CU with PowerShell

One of my customer asked me some days ago to create a PowerShell script to patch its SQL Server instances. After a reflection time, the first step will be to download the last Service Pack and the last Cumulative(…)

Get SQL Server database size with PowerShell

Introduction For various reasons, following the evolution of the data size of databases is interesting for a dba or for the application team. Most of the time, this is something built-in for monitoring tools – convenient to follow the(…)