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Who Am I Patrick Flynn MCM – SQL Server 2008 MCSM – Data Platform email sqllensman@outlook.com MCM – SQL Server 2008 MCSM – Data Platform Production DBA for (too many) years. @sqllensman Patrick Flynn

What we will cover: Powershell – a quick sales pitch!. dbatools.io – Why its awsome Installing and Using dbatools

PowerShell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerShell Microsoft first showed off Monad at the Professional Development Conference in Los Angeles in September 2003 Microsoft published the first Monad public beta release on June 17, 2005, Beta 2 on September 11, 2005, Release Candidate 2 of PowerShell version 1 was released on September 26, 2006 with final Release to the web (RTW) on November 14, 2006 and announced at TechEd Barcelona PowerShell v2.0 was completed and released to manufacturing in August 2009 PowerShell 3.0 is integrated with Windows 8 and with Windows Server 2012. PowerShell 4.0 is integrated with Windows 8.1 and with Windows Server 2012 R2. Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 RTM which includes PowerShell 5.0 was re-released to web on February 24, 2016 PowerShell 5.1 was released on August 2, 2016, in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Final Version of Windows Powershell On 18 August 2016, Microsoft announced[14] that they had made PowerShell open-source and cross-platform with support for Windows, OS X, CentOS and Ubuntu.[3] Based on Dot Net Core On 10th January 2018 GA release of Powershell Core SQL Server SQLPS introduced with Windows 2008 Available as mini-shell with SSMS Initially 5 Commands In 2016 changed to SQLServer module Latest release has partial support for PSCore

dbatools Community project, initially started out as Start-SqlMigration but has grown into a DBA’s best friend. dbatools currently sports 79 commands. How many of you have heard of dbatools? How many of you have used it? How many knew it was born in Belgium? :D dbatools is a free PowerShell module with over 300 SQL Server best practice, administration and migration commands included.

requirements Minimum Recommended Client Client PowerShell v3 SQL Server Management Studio / SMO 2008 R2 Server SQL Server 2000 No PowerShell for pure SQL commands PowerShell v2 for Windows commands Remote PowerShell enabled for Windows commands Recommended Client PowerShell v5.1

installation PowerShell Gallery (PowerShell v5+) Install-Module dbatools Install-Module dbatools –Scope CurrentUser GitHub – dbatools.io/git Invoke-Expression (Invoke-WebRequest https://dbatools.io/in) Clone repo found at dbatools.io/git, Import-Module dbatools

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More Help Extensive documentation within each command Get-Help Start-DbaMigration –Detailed Extensive documentation on dbatools.io dbatools.io/Start-DbaMigration dbatools.io/Repair-DbaOrphanUser Some commands have videos dbatools.io/youtube

Powershell Resources PowerShell for SQL Data Professionals https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/powershell-for-sql-data-professionals-16532?l=XgA5w0PgC_8805121157 PASS Powershell Virtual Chapter http://powershell.sqlpass.org/ PASS Recordings http://www.pass.org/Learning/Recordings/Listing.aspx?category=webinars24Hours Manage SQL Server in Linux Containers using dbatools