1. PowerShell is Happening FOR REAL THIS TIME!!!
Aaron Nelson

2. PowerShell for Data Professionals
By Aaron Nelson
SQLvariant.com My Blog
SQLPS.com PowerShell VC of PASS sqlps.io/video PoSh VC YouTube channel
Copyright 2016 By Aaron Nelson

3. PowerShell VC of PASS Join the conversation with us on Trello
sqlps.io/vote
If you want to make SSMS better you can do that too!
sqlps.io/ssms

4. The SQL Provider is Object Explorer, just at the command line
Object Explorer Details (F7) is a wonderful compliment to Object Explorer itself.
Lets Traverse and look at indexes

5. Trying out a new session today
A whole lot has changed in the ~14 weeks.
Your feedback is extremely important to me

6. Today is about inspiration
I’m not going to trot out every awesome script I have
I’m going to show you some cool things
Then I’d like to hear what you’d like to do if you could wave a magic wand
(because I know a guy… and a gal)

7. Don’t freak out about the syntax
You know T-SQL and you can still use it!
(Invoke-SqlCommand)
Although, that’s usually the point
PowerShell has SELECT WHERE AND JOIN, just for starters

8. This next demo IS NOT ABOUT BACKUPS.
Hopefully you’re using Ola scripts to backup your databases
Which you can of course deploy with PowerShell 

9. Backup All Databases
Get-SqlDatabase -ServerInstance localhost | Backup-SqlDatabase
Get-SqlDatabase -ServerInstance localhost | Backup-SqlDatabase -CompressionOption On
Get-SqlDatabase -ServerInstance localhost | Where { $_.Name -ne 'tempdb' } | Backup-SqlDatabase -CompressionOption On

10. Lets just backup the ones we like
OGV with the –PassThru parameter is your friend
Let’s do that across multiple instances

11. How do I know what cmdlets are out there?
Get-Command -Module SQLPS
Get-Command -Module SQLPS -ParameterName Database
Get-Help
Get-Help Backup-SqlDatabase -Examples

12. Who likes reading through the error log?
Who checks it every day?
Who likes picking through there looking for a single word.
Every.
Single.
Day.

13. Methods & Properties Methods are Verbs Properties are Adjectives
You Put Properties in your WHERE clause
I meant Filter Properties using Where-Object
You can see a ton of Properties already in Object Explorer Details

14. Want to Migrate your SQL instace?
DBAtools.io
Copyright 2016 By Aaron Nelson

15. What if you want to Compact some indexes?
Great idea
But what if you wanted to compact just some of those indexes?
DATA_COMPRESSION_ROW.ps1

16. Use Snippets
You have lots of great ideas to make things in your environment better.
Use the Snippets feature in PowerShell and create Snippets for
Multi-Server
Multi-Database
Multi-Table
Multi-Index
Don’t forget that you can create one snippet for Prod servers and a different snippet for QA servers

17. Microsoft is Listening
They have listened to the community
They have hired a full time engineer for PowerShell in SQL Server
They are still listening
We setup a Trello board to help organize the community’s thoughts & voices
The SQL Tools team comments on that Trello board.
They ask questions
Give us status updates
Ask us if we’d like automated fries with that.

18. PowerShell for Data Professionals
Aaron Nelson
SQLvariant.com My Blog
SQLPS.com PowerShell VC of PASS
Copyright 2016 By Aaron Nelson