T-SQL Tuesday – This month’s party is hosted by Wayne Sheffield (blog|twitter), and the topic is about Powershell and how to use it for anything SQL Server. With that challenge, I’d like to share a script I’ve written that takes a backup file from one server, copies to another server, and and then restores it. That may sound pretty easy, but I’ve added in a few requirements to the restore. Here’s the scenario: We have two SQL Servers, one production (TRON2R2PROD) and one test (TRON3R2TEST), and we have one user database (AdventureWorks2008R2) on each of the production and test servers. The...
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Use Powershell to Manage Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager
Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager (or as I call it “SQLdm”) is a great monitoring and performance tuning tool that I was introduced to a few years ago. There are no server-side agents, so it’s a very lightweight tool and good for monitoring all SQL Servers in your environment. The GUI is great for managing servers except when I need to put all monitored servers in maintenance mode. If I’m only monitoring a few servers, it’s not that big of a deal. However, if I’m monitoring a hundred servers, then using the GUI to place them all in maintenance mode could...
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