1. Simplify your daily tasks with DBATools!
John Wells

2. John Wells, DBA II @ Lamar Advertising
About Me
John Wells, DBA Lamar Advertising
Board Member – Baton Rouge User Groups
@SQLServerDBA318

3. Support Our Sponsors

4. Local User Groups Orange County Data Professionals Malibu SQL
2nd Thursday of each month
6:30—8:30 PM
Irvine
BigPASS.pass.org
Malibu SQL
3rd Wednesday of each month
6:30—9:00 PM
sqlMalibu.pass.org
Los Angeles SQL
3rd Thursday of each odd month
7:00—8:30 PM
USC Campus
Sql.la
San Diego User Groups
1st & 3rd Thursday
6:00—8:30 PM
Los Angeles—Korean
Every other Tuesday
8:00—9:00 PM
El Segundo
sqlAngeles.pass.org
Orange County Power BI
3rd Thursday of the month
Meetup.com

5. PASS Virtual Groups

6. Upcoming Virtual Group Webinars
Meeting Date
Time
Topic
Website
Business Intelligence
16:00 – 17:00 (UTC)
Apr 30, 2019
Power BI Dataflows 201 – Beyond The Basics - Matthew Roche
bi.pass.org
Cloud
17:00 – 18:00 (UTC)
May 2, 2019
Benchmarking in the Cloud
- Gianluca Sartori
cloud.pass.org
DBA Fundamentals
May 7, 2019
Hardware 201: Selecting and Sizing Database Hardware for OLTP Performance - Glenn Barry
fundamentals.pass.org
Data Architecture
18:00 – 19:00 (UTC)
May 8, 2019
Building Your Data Lake on ADLS
- Mark Van de Wiel
dataarch.pass.org

7. Upcoming SQLSaturdays
# Orange County – Apr 13, 2019
# Raleigh – April 27, 2019
# Edmonton – April 27, 2019
# Redmond – April 27, 2019
# Phoenix – May 04, 2019
# Philadelphia – May 04, 2019
# Jacksonville – May 04, 2019
# Los Angeles – June 15, 2019
# Baton Rouge – August 17, 2019
US/Canada
# Budapest – Apr 20, 2019
# Yaounde – April 27, 2019
# Stockholm – May 04, 2019
# Finland – May 11, 2019
EMEA
# Santiago – Apr 13, 2019
LATAM
The ONLY SQLSaturday that serves
Jambalaya for lunch!

8. Agenda
Quick Review of some PowerShell Basics you should know.
Show You How DBATools will make your life easy!
Share some great resources to get you started.

9. Getting started with powershell
Verb – Noun
Get-Help
This will be your best friend!
Update-Help
Requirements / Download Module

10. Modules of interest
Find-Module
Install-Module
Update-Module

11. Resources https://dbatools.io/ https://blog.netnerds.net/

12. linkedin.com/in/sqlserverdba318
Contact Info
John Wells
@sqlserverdba318
linkedin.com/in/sqlserverdba318