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An effective DBA is an efficient DBA. And if you work with SQL Server, dbatools is a lifesaver. With over 500 commands, this free and open source PowerShell module has the horsepower to automate just about every task you can imagine—and then some! Written by dbatools creator Chrissy LeMaire and dbatools advocate Rob Sewell, Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches teaches you techniques that will make you more effective—and efficient—than you ever thought possible.This is an excellent resource to use for advancing your skills with advanced administration for SQL servers, regardless of the number of servers you are administering.
About the Technology
Want to automate tasks for thousands of SQL servers at once? Want to migrate an entire SQL server using just the command line? dbatools can do all that—and more. A free and open source PowerShell module, dbatools offers over 500 commands for automating SQL Server from the command line. Boasting advanced options unavailable in official tools, dbatools makes it easy to automate tasks including mass exports for simplified disaster recovery, tempdb configuration, and improving an instance’s security posture.About the book
Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches is a practical hands-on guide to automating SQL Server with PowerShell and the awesome dbatools module. You’ll master techniques you can immediately put into practice, from daily duties like backups and restores right through to performing security audits. Stabilize and standardize your SQL server environment, and simplify your tasks by building automation, alerting, and reporting with this powerful tool. Each lesson delivers another skill that you can use to speed through your core tasks as a SQL Server DBA!
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1 Before you begin
1.1 Why Data Professionals can’t afford to ignore PowerShell
1.1.1 A SQL Server DBA first win with PowerShell
1.2 Automate it
1.3 What is dbatools?
1.4 Is this book for you?
1.5 How to use this book
1.5.1 The main chapters
1.5.2 Hands-on labs
1.5.3 Supplementary materials
1.5.4 Further Exploration
1.6 Contacting us
1.7 Being immediately effective with dbatools
2 Installing dbatools
2.1 Minimum Requirements
2.1.1 Server
2.1.2 Workstation
2.1.3 Ports
2.1.4 Execution Policy
2.2 Signed software
2.3 Understanding installation paths
2.4 Installation methods
2.4.1 The PowerShell Gallery
2.4.2 Trusting the PowerShell Gallery
2.4.3 Installing using the PowerShell Gallery, All Users
2.4.4 PowerShell Gallery, Local user
2.4.5 PowerShell Gallery, offline install
2.5 PowerShell Gallery alternatives
2.5.1 Downloading zipped archive
2.5.2 Additional Methods
2.6 How to find and use commands, use the help system and docs.dbatools.io
2.6.1 Get-Command
2.6.2 Find-DbaCommand
2.6.3 Get-Help
2.6.4 docs.dbatools.io
2.7 Updating
2.7.1 PowerShell Gallery
2.7.2 Alternative methods
2.8 Hands-on Lab
3 Setting up your lab environment
4 A Gentle Introduction to dbatools commands
4.1 Getting started
4.2 Checking the SQL connection
4.3 First, getting help
4.4 Now, run your first dbatools command
4.5 The SqlInstance parameter
4.5.1 Single Instances
4.5.2 Multiple instances
4.6 The SqlCredential parameter
4.6.1 Connecting to Instances with SQL Authentication
4.6.2 Saving the credential to use SQL Authentication with multiple commands
4.6.3 Other methods of using credentials for SQL Authentication
4.6.4 Connecting to Instances with a different Windows Account
4.7 The ComputerName parameter
4.7.1 Methods of listing the SQL services on multiple servers
4.8 The Credential parameter
4.8.1 List Services on a server using a different account at the command line
4.8.2 List Services on a server using a different account with a credential variable
4.8.3 Listing SQL Services by type
4.9 Bonus parameter: EnableException
4.10 Hands On Lab
5 Writing to SQL Server
5.1 Piping Commands
5.2 Writing to a database
5.2.1 Importing from a CSV to a database table
5.2.2 Importing to a database table from a dbatools command
5.2.3 Creating the database table first and then importing from CSV
5.2.4 Writing the results of other commands to a table
5.2.5 Writing the results of other commands to an Azure SQL Database
5.3 Copying Tables including their data
5.3.1 PowerShell splatting
5.4 Hands-on Lab
6 Finding SQL Server Instances on your network
6.1 Background
6.1.1 Find an instance
6.1.2 Find instances using a list of targets
6.1.3 Finding SQL Servers in an Active Directory Domain
6.1.4 Finding SQL Servers in your surrounding network
6.2 Working with detailed results
6.3 OS Support
6.4 Hands-on Lab
7 Inventorying your SQL estate
7.1 SQL Features
7.2 Build
7.3 Host info
7.4 Databases
7.4.1 Filtering the databases that are returned from Get-DbaDatabase
7.4.2 Filtering the databases that are returned from Get-DbaDatabase by last backup time
7.5 Putting it all together into a database
7.6 Hands-on Lab
8 Registered Servers
8.1 Local Server Groups
8.1.1 Version-specific RegSrvr.xml files
8.2 Azure Data Studio
8.3 Central Management Server
8.4 Inventory Organization
8.4.1 Importing advanced environment folder structures
8.5 Further Integration
8.5.1 Add New Registered Servers
8.5.2 Copy, Export, Import
8.5.3 Move Registered Servers
8.5.4 Remove Registered Servers
8.6 Registered Server Groups
8.7 Hands On Lab
9 Logins and users
9.1 A failed login
9.2 Lessons Learned meeting
9.3 Logins, Users and permissions source control
9.4 How was access gained?
9.4.1 Finding nested Active Directory Group access
9.5 Hands-on Lab
10 Backup
11 Restore
[[chapter_id_12] == 12 Building a dedicated backup test server
13 Install and update SQL Server
13.1 Install
13.1.1 Benefits of Automated Installs
13.1.2 Local installs
13.1.3 Update
13.2 Hands On Lab
14 Disaster Recovery
14.1 Export-DbaInstance
14.1.1 Directory of instance T-SQL files
14.1.2 Scripting Options
14.1.3 Setting Scripting Options
14.1.4 Excluding objects
14.2 Granular Exports
14.2.1 Using Export-DbaScript
14.3 Special Commands
14.3.1 Exporting server configurations (sp_configure)
14.4 Hands-on Lab
15 Performing your first advanced SQL instance migration
16 High availability
17 PowerShell and SQL Server Agent
18 SQL Server Agent Administration
19 Creating and Working with SQL Agent Objects
20 DevOps
21 Masking / Invoke-DbaDbDataGenerator
22 Tracing the activity on the instance with dbatools
23 Security and Encryption
24 Cloud
25 Using dbatools and Pester to validate your environment
26 Coding Hints with dbatools
27 Addendum: dbatools Configurations and logging and enable exception
Appendixes
Appendix A: Answers
Chapter 2
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
What's inside
- Installing dbatools in secure environments
- Bulk-import any type of data into SQL Server
- Instance-to-instance and customized migrations
- Schedule and monitor PowerShell tasks in SQL Server Agent
About the authors
Chrissy LeMaire is a dual Microsoft MVP, awarded for her work with SQL Server and PowerShell. She is an international speaker, and the creator of dbatools. Rob Sewell is a passionate automator, also recognized as an MVP by Microsoft. He is a keen community contributor as an event organizer, speaker and open-source contributor.placing your order...
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