I recently had situation where I needed to monitor bunch of IPs and log if any of them fail to respond. I know there are probably 1000 different ways it can be done but I needed something simple that I can setup quickly and give out to anyone to use without worrying too much about
Tag: PowerShell
PowerShell Quick Script – Delete all databases from list of instances
I have been using this amazing PowerShell module called dbatools (can be downloaded from https://dbatools.io/) for a while. This is basically a module that has bunch of very very handy commands that can be used to do lot of SQL Server administrative operations very easily… for example, migrate database to another instance\server, restore collection of
SVN checkout using BATCH and PowerShell
Few days back I was working on a script to automate project builds. And at one step I was required to checkout code from source control and build the application. Since everything was done using a single script there was no way I could prompt to user GUI because in this case it was just
Powershell … shell on steroids !!
Shell is not a new thing for any older timer … or for folks working with forbidden OSes like Unix and Linux. It is primary utility used by users to interact with those systems (and in older days it was perhaps the only way of interaction). Till few days back, I was obsessed with DOS