Getting SQL Server File Sizes and Space Used with dbatools

Posted on March 29, 2017 by RobSewell

I read a great blog post about answering the question how big is the database using T-SQL on SQL Buffet and wondered how much I could do with the dbatools module

The dbatools module (for those that don’t know) is a PowerShell module written by amazing folks in the community designed to make administrating your SQL Server significantly easier using PowerShell. The instructions for installing it are available here It comprises of 182 separate commands at present (11 March 2017 Version 0.8.938)

I know that there is a Get-DBADatabaseFreeSpace Command written by Mike Fal b | t and using Glenn Berry’s diagnostic queries

First thing as always is to look at the help

 Get-Help Get-DbaDatabaseFreespace -ShowWindow

which will show you the help for the command and some examples

Lets look at the details for a single instance

 Get-DbaDatabaseFreespace -sqlserver $server

This is what it looks like

02 - singel server.gif

and yes it really is that fast, I have not speeded this up. 232 ms to get those details for an instance with 19 databases

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What information do you get ? Lets look at the information for a single database, you get an object for each file

Server               : SQL2014SER12R2
Database             : DBA-Admin
FileName             : DBA-Admin_System
FileGroup            : PRIMARY
PhysicalName         : F:\DBA-Admin_System.MDF
FileType             : ROWS
UsedSpaceMB          : 3
FreeSpaceMB          : 253
FileSizeMB           : 256
PercentUsed          : 1
AutoGrowth           : 0
AutoGrowType         : MB
SpaceUntilMaxSizeMB : 16777213
AutoGrowthPossibleMB : 0
UnusableSpaceMB      : 16777213

Server               : SQL2014SER12R2
Database             : DBA-Admin
FileName             : DBA-Admin_Log
FileGroup            :
PhysicalName         : G:\DBA-Admin_Log.LDF
FileType             : LOG
UsedSpaceMB          : 32
FreeSpaceMB          : 224
FileSizeMB           : 256
PercentUsed          : 12
AutoGrowth           : 256
AutoGrowType         : MB
SpaceUntilMaxSizeMB : 2528
AutoGrowthPossibleMB : 2304
UnusableSpaceMB      : 0

Server               : SQL2014SER12R2
Database             : DBA-Admin
FileName             : DBA-Admin_User
FileGroup            : UserFG
PhysicalName         : F:\DBA-Admin_User.NDF
FileType             : ROWS
UsedSpaceMB          : 1
FreeSpaceMB          : 255
FileSizeMB           : 256
PercentUsed          : 0
AutoGrowth           : 256
AutoGrowType         : MB
SpaceUntilMaxSizeMB : 5119
AutoGrowthPossibleMB : 4864
UnusableSpaceMB      : 0

There is a lot of useful information returned for each file. Its better if you use Out-GridView as then you can order by columns and filter in the top bar.

As always, PowerShell uses the permissions of the account running the sessions to connect to the SQL Server unless you provide a separate credential for SQL Authentication. If you need to connect with a different windows account you will need to hold Shift down and right click on the PowerShell icon and click run as a different user.

Lets get the information for a single database. The command has dynamic parameters which populate the database names to save you time and keystrokes

05 dynamic parameters.gif

But you may want to gather information about more than one server. lets take a list of servers and place them into a variable. You can add your servers to this variable in a number of ways, maybe by querying your CMDB or using your registered servers or central management server

$SQLServers = 'SQL2005Ser2003','SQL2012Ser08AG3','SQL2012Ser08AG1','SQL2012Ser08AG2','SQL2014Ser12R2','SQL2016N1','SQL2016N2','SQL2016N3','SQLVnextN1','SQLvNextN2'

and then

Get-DbaDatabaseFreespace -SqlInstance $SQLServers | Out-GridView

06 - Many servers ogv.PNG

As you can see, you get a warning quite correctly, that the information for the asynchronous secondary node of the availability group databases is not available and I did not have all of my servers running so there are a couple of could not connect warnings as well. You can still filter very quickly. dbatools is tested from SQL2000 to SQL vNext as you can see below (although I don’t have a SQL2000 instance)

07 - filter ogv

Not only on Windows, this command will work against SQL running on Linux as well

08 - linux.PNG

So if we want to know the total size of the files on disk for the database we need to look at the FileSizeMB property

$server = 'SQL2014Ser12R2'
$dbName = 'AdventureWorksDW2014'
Get-DbaDatabaseFreespace -SqlServer $server -database $dbName |
Select Database,FileName,FileSizeMB

Of course that’s an easy calculation here

08a - filesize.PNG

but if we have numerous files then it may be tougher. we can use the Measure-Object command to sum the properties. We need to do a bit of preparation here and set a couple of calculated properties to make it more readable

$server = 'SQL2014Ser12R2'
$dbName = 'AdventureWorksDW2014'
$database = @{Name = 'Database'; Expression = {$dbname}}
$FileSize = @{Name = 'FileSize'; Expression = {$_.Sum}}
Get-DbaDatabaseFreespace -SqlServer $server -database $dbName |
Select Database,FileSizeMB |
Measure-Object FileSizeMB -Sum |
Select $database ,Property, $filesize

09 - filessize

Maybe we want to look at all of the databases on an instance. Again, we have to do a little more work here

$server = 'SQL2014Ser12R2'
$srv = Connect-DbaSqlServer $server
$SizeonDisk = @()
$srv.Databases |ForEach-Object {
$dbName = $_.Name
$database = @{Name = 'Database'; Expression = {$dbname}}
$FileSize = @{Name = 'FileSize'; Expression = {$_.Sum}}
$SizeOnDisk += Get-DbaDatabaseFreespace -SqlServer $server -database $dbName | Select Database,FileSizeMB |  Measure-Object FileSizeMb -Sum | Select $database ,Property, $Filesize
}
$SizeOnDisk

10 - size on disk

If we wanted the databases ordered by the size of their files we could do this

$SizeOnDisk |Sort-Object Filesize -Descending

11 - size sorted.PNG

As it is PowerShell we have an object and we can use it any way we like. Maybe we want that information in a text file or a csv or an excel file or in an email, PowerShell can do that

 ## In a text file
$SizeonDisk | Out-file C:\temp\Sizeondisk.txt
Invoke-Item C:\temp\Sizeondisk.txt
## In a CSV
$SizeonDisk | Export-Csv C:\temp\Sizeondisk.csv -NoTypeInformation
notepad C:\temp\Sizeondisk.csv
## Email
Send-MailMessage -SmtpServer $smtp -From DBATeam@TheBeard.local -To JuniorDBA-Smurf@TheBeard.Local `
-Subject "Smurf this needs looking At" -Body $SizeonDisk
## Email as Attachment
Send-MailMessage -SmtpServer $smtp -From DBATeam@TheBeard.local -To JuniorDBA-Smurf@TheBeard.Local `
-Subject "Smurf this needs looking At" -Body "Smurf" -Attachments C:\temp\Sizeondisk.csv

I had a little play with Boe Prox PoshCharts (you have to use the dev branch) to see if I could get some nice charts and unfortunately the bar charts did not come out so well but luckily the donut and pie charts did. (I’m a DBA I love donuts!)

$SizeonDisk| Out-PieChart -XField Database -YField FileSize -Title "UsedSpaceMB per Database on $Server" -IncludeLegend -Enable3D
$SizeonDisk| Out-DoughnutChart -XField Database -YField FileSize -Title "UsedSpaceMB per Database on $Server" -IncludeLegend -Enable3D

12 - donuts.PNG

So the point is, whatever you or your process requires you can pretty much bet that PowerShell can enable it for you to automate.

You can make use of all of the properties exposed by the command. If you want to only see the files with less than 20% space free

 Get-DbaDatabaseFreespace -SqlServer $server | Where-Object {$_.PercentUsed -gt 80}

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you can also use the command to check for file growth settings as well

 Get-DbaDatabaseFreespace -SqlServer $server | Where-Object {$_.AutoGrowType  -ne 'Mb'}

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Or maybe you want to know the FileSize, Used and Free Space per database

 $server = 'SQL2014Ser12R2'
$srv = Connect-DbaSqlServer $server
$SizeonDisk = @()
$srv.Databases |ForEach-Object {
$dbName = $_.Name
$database = @{Name = 'Database'; Expression = {$dbname}}
$MB = @{Name = 'Mbs'; Expression = {$_.Sum}}
$SizeOnDisk += Get-DbaDatabaseFreespace -SqlServer $server -database $dbName | Select Database,FileSizeMB, UsedSpaceMB, FreeSpaceMb |  Measure-Object FileSizeMb , UsedSpaceMB, FreeSpaceMb -Sum  | Select $database ,Property, $Mb
}
$SizeOnDisk

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Hopefully that has given you a quick insight into another one of the fabulous dbatools commands. Any questions, comment below or head over to the SQL Server Community Slack via https://sqlps.io/slack

Happy Automating

NOTE – The major 1.0 release of dbatools due in the summer 2017 may have breaking changes which will stop the above code from working. There are also new commands coming which may replace this command. This blog post was written using dbatools version 0.8.942 You can check your version using

 Get-Module dbatools

and update it using an Administrator PowerShell session with

 Update-Module dbatools

You may find that you get no output from Update-Module as you have the latest version. If you have not installed the module from the PowerShell Gallery using

 Install-Module dbatools

Then you can use

 Update-dbatools

Test your Sqlserver backups on Linux with PowerShell and dbatools

Posted on March 27, 2017 by RobSewell

I have written about Test-DbaLastBackup in posts here, here and here. They have been Windows only posts.

With SQL Server vNext CTP 1.4 now available and providing SQL Agent capability on Linux, I wrote here about using Ola Hallengrens scripts on Linux SQL Servers so can Test-DbaLastBackup work with Linux?

01 - Yes it does.PNG

Yes it does!!

and I caught the database being restored in SSMS as well

02 - SSMS.PNG

Happy Automating 🙂

Using Pester with dbatools Test-DbaLastBackup

Posted on March 25, 2017 by RobSewell

In previous posts I have shown how to use Test-DbaLastBackup from dbatools and how you can make use of the results. Today we will look at using Pester with the results

Pester provides a framework for running unit tests to execute and validate PowerShell commands from within PowerShell. Pester consists of a simple set of functions that expose a testing domain-specific language (DSL) for isolating, running, evaluating and reporting the results of PowerShell commands.

we shall use it to validate our results. First we need to gather our results as we have seen before, In this example I have set the MaxMb to 5 so change that if you are playing along

Import-Module dbatools
$TestServer = 'SQL2016N1'
$Server = 'SQL2016N2'
$servers = 'SQL2016N1','SQL2016N2'
$Results = $servers.ForEach{Test-DbaLastBackup -SqlServer $_ -Destination $TestServer -MaxMB 5}

Then we need to write some Pester Tests. I tried to use Test Cases which are the correct method to iterate through collections as Mike Robbins shows here but Pester does not accept the type of object that is returned from this command for that. It’s ok though, because Pester is just PowerShell we can use a foreach loop.

In this scenario, we are testing for failures rather than when the backup test has skipped due to the file path not being a network share or the size being greater than our max size, so our checks are using the Should Not assertion. I have also added a test for the time the backup was taken.

Describe "Last Backup Test results - NOTE THIS IGNORES Skipped restores,DBCC and BackupFiles" {
foreach($result in $results)
{
It "$($Result.Database) on $($Result.SourceServer) File Should Exist" {
$Result.FileExists| Should Not Be 'False'
}
It "$($Result.Database) on $($Result.SourceServer) Restore should be Success" {
$Result.RestoreResult| Should Not Be 'False'
}
It "$($Result.Database) on $($Result.SourceServer) DBCC should be Success" {
$Result.DBCCResult| Should Not Be 'False'
}
It "$($Result.Database) on $($Result.SourceServer) Backup Should be less than a week old" {
$Result.BackupTaken| Should BeGreaterThan (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)
}
}

If we run that we get an output like this. Green is Good Red is Bad 🙂

We can save the script to a file and use the Invoke-Pester to call it like this.

Invoke-Pester C:\temp\BackupPester.ps1

(Some Restore Frames removed for brevity)

invoke-Pester can output results to a file so we can output to XML which can be consumed by many things

$Date = Get-Date -Format ddMMyyyHHmmss
$tempFolder = 'c:\temp\BackupTests\'
Push-Location $tempFolder
$XML = $tempFolder + "BackupTestResults_$Date.xml"
$script = 'C:\temp\BackupPester.ps1'
Invoke-Pester -Script $Script -OutputFile $xml -OutputFormat NUnitXml

will provide an XML file like this

We can also make use of the reportunit.exe from http://relevantcodes.com/ to create pretty HTML files from the XML files we created

This piece of code will download and extract the file if it does not exist in the directory

#download and extract ReportUnit.exe
$url = 'http://relevantcodes.com/Tools/ReportUnit/reportunit-1.2.zip'
$fullPath = Join-Path $tempFolder $url.Split("/")[-1]
$reportunit = $tempFolder + '\reportunit.exe'
if((Test-Path $reportunit) -eq $false)
{
(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile($url,$fullPath)
Expand-Archive -Path $fullPath -DestinationPath $tempFolder
}

and this will run it against the XML and open the file

##run reportunit against report.xml and display result in browser
$HTML = $tempFolder  + 'index.html'
& .\reportunit.exe $tempFolder
Invoke-Item $HTML

which will look like

Happy Automating

 Get-Module dbatools

and update it using an Administrator PowerShell session with

 Update-Module dbatools

You may find that you get no output from Update-Module as you have the latest version. If you have not installed the module from the PowerShell Gallery using

Install-Module dbatools

Then you can use

Update-dbatools

Backing up SQL Server on Linux using Ola Hallengrens Maintenance Solution

Posted on March 22, 2017 by RobSewell

With the release of SQL Server vNext CTP 1.4 SQL Agent was released for use on Linux. To install it on Ubuntu you need to upgrade your SQL Server to CTP 1.4. On Ubuntu you do this with

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mssql-server

Once you have CTP 1.4 you can install SQL Agent as follows

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mssql-server-agent
sudo systemctl restart mssql-server

for different flavours of Linux follow the steps here

Once you have done that you will see that the Agent is now available

01 - SSMS Agent Linux.PNG

So now I can schedule backups and maintenance for my Linux SQL databases using the agent. I immediately turned to Ola Hallengrens Maintenance Solution I downloaded the SQL file and ran it against my Linux server once I had changed the path for the backups to a directory I had created at /var/opt/mssql/backups notice that it is specified using Windows notation with C:\ at the root

SET @CreateJobs= 'Y' -- Specify whether jobs should be created. 
SET @BackupDirectory = N'C:\var\opt\mssql\backups' -- Specify the backup root directory. 
SET @CleanupTime = 350 -- Time in hours, after which backup files are deleted. If no time is specified, then no backup files are deleted. 
SET @OutputFileDirectory = NULL -- Specify the output file directory. If no directory is specified, then the SQL Server error log directory is used. 
SET @LogToTable = 'Y' -- Log commands to a table.

The stored procedures were created

03 - stored procedures

and the jobs were created

04 - jobs.PNG

Now the jobs are not going to run as they are as they have CmdExec steps and this is not supported in SQL on Linux so we have to make some changes to the steps. As I blogged previously, this is really easy using PowerShell

First we need to grab the jobs into a variable. We will use Get-SQLAgentJobHistory from the sqlserver module which you need to download SSMS 2016 or later to get. You can get it from https://sqlps.io/dl As we are targeting a Linux SQL Server we will use SQL authentication which we will provide via Get-Credential and then take a look at the jobs

Import-Module sqlserver
$cred = Get-Credential
$Jobs = Get-SqlAgentJob -ServerInstance LinuxvVNext -Credential $cred
$jobs |ft -auto

Once the jobs were in the variable I decided to filter out only the jobs that are calling the stored procedures to perform the backups, DBCC and Index optimisation and loop through them first. Backups are the most important after all

## Find the jobs we want to change foreach($Job in $jobs.Where{$_.Name -like '*DATABASES*'})

Then it is simply a case of replacing the sqlcmd text in the command to return it to T-SQL, adding the database name (I installed Ola’s stored procedures into the master database and changing the subsystem to use T-SQL instead of CmdExec

## replace the text as required
$job.jobsteps[0].command = $job.jobsteps[0].command.Replace('sqlcmd -E -S $(ESCAPE_SQUOTE(SRVR)) -d master -Q "' , '').Replace('" -b','')
## Change the subsystem
$job.jobsteps[0].subsystem = 'TransactSQL'
## Add the databasename
$job.jobsteps[0].DatabaseName = 'master'
## Alter the jobstep
$job.jobsteps[0].Alter()

We can check that it has done this using PowerShell

$Jobs = Get-SqlAgentJob -ServerInstance LinuxvVNext -Credential $cred
foreach ($Job in $jobs.Where{$_.Name -like '*DATABASES*'}) {
    foreach ($step in $Job.JobSteps) {
        $step | Select Parent, Name, Command, DatabaseName, Subsystem
    }
}

or by looking in SSMS if you prefer

Now lets run the jobs and check the history using Get-SqlAgentJobHistory

Get-SqlAgentJobHistory -ServerInstance linuxvnextctp14 -Credential $cred | select RunDate,StepID,Server,JobName,StepName,Message|Out-GridView

Which pretty much matches what you see in SSMS

and if you look in the directory you see the files exactly as you would expect them to be

We still need to change the other jobs that Ola’s script create. If we look at the command steps

We can see that the CommandLog Cleanup job can use the same PowerShell code as the backup jobs, the sp_delete_backuphistory and sp_purgejobhistory jobs need to refer to the msdb database instead of master. For the moment the Output File Cleanup job is the one that is not able to be run on Linux. Hopefully soon we will be able to run PowerShell job steps and that will be resolved as well

Here is the full snippet of code to change all of the jobs

$server = 'Linuxvnextctp14'
$cred = Get-Credential
$Jobs = Get-SqlAgentJob -ServerInstance $server -Credential $cred
## Find the jobs we want to change
foreach ($Job in $jobs) {
    if ($Job.Name -like '*DATABASES*' -or $Job.Name -like '*CommandLog*') {
        ## replace the text as required
        $job.jobsteps[0].command = $job.jobsteps[0].command.Replace('sqlcmd -E -S $(ESCAPE_SQUOTE(SRVR)) -d master -Q "' , '').Replace('" -b', '')
        ## Change the subsystem
        $job.jobsteps[0].subsystem = 'TransactSQL'
        ## Add the databasename
        $job.jobsteps[0].DatabaseName = 'master'
        ## Alter the jobstep
        $job.jobsteps[0].Alter()
    }
    if ($Job.Name -like '*history*') {
        ## replace the text as required
        $job.jobsteps[0].command = $job.jobsteps[0].command.Replace('sqlcmd -E -S $(ESCAPE_SQUOTE(SRVR)) -d msdb -Q "' , '').Replace('" -b', '')
        ## Change the subsystem
        $job.jobsteps[0].subsystem = 'TransactSQL'
        ## Add the databasename
        $job.jobsteps[0].DatabaseName = 'msdb'
        ## Alter the jobstep
        $job.jobsteps[0].Alter()
    }
}

Happy Automating

Taking dbatools Test-DbaLastBackup a little further

Posted on March 22, 2017 by RobSewell

In a previous post I showed how easy it is to test your backups using Test-DbaLastBackup

Today I thought I would take it a little further and show you how PowerShell can be used to transmit or store this information in the manner you require

Test-DBALastBackup returns an object of information

SourceServer : SQL2016N2
TestServer    : SQL2016N2
Database      : FadetoBlack
FileExists    : True
RestoreResult : Success
DbccResult    : Success
SizeMB        : 1243.26
BackupTaken   : 3/18/2017 12:36:07 PM
BackupFiles   : Z:\SQL2016N2\FadetoBlack\FULL_COPY_ONLY\SQL2016N2_FadetoBlack_FULL_COPY_ONLY_20170318_123607.bak

which shows the server, the database name, if the file exists, the restore result, the DBCC result, the size of the backup file, when the backup was taken and the path used

Text File

As it is an object we can make use of that in PowerShell. We can output the results to a file

Test-DbaLastBackup -SqlServer sql2016n2 -Destination SQL2016N1 -MaxMB 5 | Out-File C:\temp\Test-Restore.txt
notepad C:\temp\Test-Restore.txt

CSV

Or maybe you need a CSV

Test-DbaLastBackup -SqlServer sql2016n2 -Destination SQL2016N1 -MaxMB 5 | Export-Csv C:\temp\Test-Restore.csv -NoTypeInformation

JSON

Maybe you want some json

Test-DbaLastBackup -SqlServer sql2016n2 -Destination SQL2016N1| ConvertTo-Json | Out-file c:\temp\test-results.json

HTML

Or an HTML page

$Results = Test-DbaLastBackup -SqlServer sql2016n2 -Destination SQL2016N1
$Results | ConvertTo-Html | Out-File c:\temp\test-results.html

Excel

or perhaps you want a nice colour coded Excel sheet to show your manager or the auditors

Import-Module dbatools
$TestServer = 'SQL2016N1'
$Server = 'SQL2016N2'
## Run the test and save to a variable
$Results = Test-DbaLastBackup -SqlServer $server -Destination $TestServer
# Set the filename
$TestDate = Get-Date
$Date = Get-Date -Format ddMMyyy_HHmmss
$filename = 'C:\Temp\TestResults_' + $Date + '.xlsx'
# Create a .com object for Excel
$xl = new-object -comobject excel.application
$xl.Visible = $true # Set this to False when you run in production
$wb = $xl.Workbooks.Add() # Add a workbook
$ws = $wb.Worksheets.Item(1) # Add a worksheet
$cells = $ws.Cells
$col = 1
$row = 3
## Create a legenc
$cells.item($row, $col) = "Legend"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 16
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 34
$row ++
$cells.item($row, $col) = "True or Success"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 12
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 10
$row ++
$cells.item($row, $col) = "False or Failed"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 12
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 3
$row ++
$cells.item($row, $col) = "Skipped"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 12
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 16
$row ++
$cells.item($row, $col) = "Backup Under 7 days old"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 12
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 4
$row ++
$cells.item($row, $col) = "Backup Over 7 days old"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 12
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 3
## Create a header
$col ++
$row = 3
$cells.item($row, $col) = "Source Server"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 16
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 34
$col ++
$cells.item($row, $col) = "Test Server"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 16
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 34
$col ++
$cells.item($row, $col) = "Database"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 16
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 34
$col ++
$cells.item($row, $col) = "File Exists"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 16
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 34
$col ++
$cells.item($row, $col) = "Restore Result"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 16
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 34
$col ++
$cells.item($row, $col) = "DBCC Result"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 16
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 34
$col ++
$cells.item($row, $col) = "Size Mb"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 16
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 34
$col ++
$cells.item($row, $col) = "Backup Date"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 16
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 34
$col ++
$cells.item($row, $col) = "Backup Files"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 16
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 34
$col = 2
$row = 4
foreach ($result in $results) {
    $col = 2
    $cells.item($row, $col) = $Result.SourceServer
    $cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 12
    $Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
    $col ++
    $cells.item($row, $col) = $Result.TestServer
    $cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 12
    $Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
    $col++
    $cells.item($row, $col) = $Result.Database
    $cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 12
    $Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
    $col++
    $cells.item($row, $col) = $Result.FileExists
    $cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 12
    $Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
    if ($result.FileExists -eq 'True') {
        $Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 10
    }
    elseif ($result.FileExists -eq 'False') {
        $Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 3
    }
    else {
        $Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 16
    }
    $col++
    $cells.item($row, $col) = $Result.RestoreResult
    $cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 12
    $Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
    if ($result.RestoreResult -eq 'Success') {
        $Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 10
    }
    elseif ($result.RestoreResult -eq 'Failed') {
        $Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 3
    }
    else {
        $Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 16
    }
    $col++
    $cells.item($row, $col) = $Result.DBCCResult
    $cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 12
    $Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
    if ($result.DBCCResult -eq 'Success') {
        $Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 10
    }
    elseif ($result.DBCCResult -eq 'Failed') {
        $Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 3
    }
    else {
        $Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 16
    }
    $col++
    $cells.item($row, $col) = $Result.SizeMb
    $cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 12
    $Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
    $col++
    $cells.item($row, $col) = $Result.BackupTaken
    $cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 12
    $Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
    if ($result.BackupTaken -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)) {
        $Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 4
    }
    else {
        $Cells.item($row, $col).Interior.ColorIndex = 3
    }
    $col++
    $cells.item($row, $col) = $Result.BackupFiles
    $cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 12
    $Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
    $row++
}
[void]$ws.cells.entireColumn.Autofit()
## Add the title after the autofit
$col = 2
$row = 1
$cells.item($row, $col) = "This report shows the results of the test backups performed on $TestServer for $Server on $TestDate"
$cells.item($row, $col).font.size = 18
$Cells.item($row, $col).Columnwidth = 10
$wb.Saveas($filename)
$xl.quit()

It looks like this. Green is Good, Red is Bad, Grey is don’t care!

Email

You might need to email the results, here I am using GMail as an example. With 2 factor authentication you need to use an app password in the credential

Import-Module dbatools
$TestServer = 'SQL2016N1'$Server = 'SQL2016N2'
## Run the test and save to a variable
$Results = Test-DbaLastBackup -SqlServer $server -Destination $TestServer -MaxMB 5
$to = ''
$smtp = 'smtp.gmail.com'
$port = 587
$cred = Get-Credential
$from = 'Beard@TheBeard.Local'
$subject = 'The Beard Reports on Backup Testing'
$Body = $Results | Format-Table | Out-String
Send-MailMessage -To $to -From $from -Body $Body -Subject $subject -SmtpServer $smtp -Priority High -UseSsl -Port $port -Credential $cred</pre>

You can of course attach any of the above files as an attachment using the -attachment parameter in Send-MailMessage

Database

Of course, as good data professionals we probably want to put the data into a database where we can ensure that it is kept safe and secure

dbatools has a couple of commands to help with that too. We can use Out-DbaDataTable to create a datatable object and Write-DbaDatatable to write it to a database

Create a table

USE [TestResults]
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[backuptest](
[SourceServer] [nvarchar](250) NULL,
[TestServer] [nvarchar](250) NULL,
[Database] [nvarchar](250) NULL,
[FileExists] [nvarchar](10) NULL,
[RestoreResult] [nvarchar](200) NULL,
[DBCCResult] [nvarchar](200) NULL,
[SizeMB] [int] NULL,
[Backuptaken] [datetime] NULL,
[BackupFiles] [nvarchar](300) NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

then add the data

Import-Module dbatools
$TestServer = 'SQL2016N1'
$Server = 'SQL2016N2'
$servers = 'SQL2005Ser2003','SQL2012Ser08AG1','SQL2012Ser08AG2','SQL2012Ser08AG3','SQL2014Ser12R2','SQL2016N1','SQL2016N2','SQL2016N3'
## Run the test for each server and save to a variable (This uses PowerShell v4 or above code)
$Results = $servers.ForEach{Test-DbaLastBackup -SqlServer $_ -Destination $TestServer -MaxMB 5}
## Convert to a daatatable.
$DataTable = Out-DbaDataTable -InputObject $Results
## Write to the database
Write-DbaDataTable -SqlServer $Server -Database TestResults -Schema dbo -Table backuptest -KeepNulls -InputObject $DataTable

and query it

Hopefully that has given you some ideas of how you can make use of this great command and also one of the benefits of PowerShell and the ability to use objects for different purposes

Happy Automating

 Get-Module dbatools

and update it using an Administrator PowerShell session with

 Update-Module dbatools

You may find that you get no output from Update-Module as you have the latest version. If you have not installed the module from the PowerShell Gallery using

Install-Module dbatools

Then you can use

Update-dbatools

Testing Your SQL Server Backups the Easy Way with PowerShell & dbatools

Posted on March 20, 2017 by RobSewell

In a previous post I wrote about how easy it was to restore a whole SQL Servers user databases from a directory using the dbatools module. Maybe it is a good idea to look at for disaster recovery scenarios but even PowerShell is going to be useless if your backups don’t work

But setting up a solution to test your backups (technically test your restores) is difficult isn’t it?

Lets use the dbatools module and see how easy it is

The dbatools module has a command called Test-DbaLastBackup if you look at the page or at the help using

Get-Help Test-DbaLastBackup -ShowWindow

you will see that this command

Restores all or some of the latest backups and performs a consistency check

1. Gathers information about the last full backups
2. Restores the backups to the Destination with a new name. If no Destination is specified, the originating SqlServer will be used.
3. The database is restored as “dbatools-testrestore-$databaseName” by default, but you can change dbatools-testrestore to whatever you would like using -Prefix
4. The internal file names are also renamed to prevent conflicts with original database
5. A consistency check is then performed
6. And the test database is finally dropped

So, if you only have one SQL Server but want to ensure that you are testing your backup files then as along as you have the diskspace you can simply run

Test-DbaLastBackup -SqlServer sql2016n2

and the latest backups that have been taken will be restored using a different name with different filenames, checked for consistency and then dropped

01 - simple test backups.PNG

and as you can see an object is returned
SourceServer : SQL2016N2
TestServer    : SQL2016N2
Database      : FadetoBlack
FileExists    : True
RestoreResult : Success
DbccResult    : Success
SizeMB        : 1243.26
BackupTaken   : 3/18/2017 12:36:07 PM
BackupFiles   : Z:\SQL2016N2\FadetoBlack\FULL_COPY_ONLY\SQL2016N2_FadetoBlack_FULL_COPY_ONLY_20170318_123607.bak

which shows the Server, the database, if the file exists, the restore result, the DBCC result, the size of the backup file, when it was taken and the path used

You don’t have to use the same server and in many shops you would not want to. You can specify a destination server and you can also pipe the results to Out-GridView to enable easy filtering.

Test-DbaLastBackup -SqlServer sql2016n2 -Destination SQL2016N1 | OGV

Note you need to be backing up to a shared location ie a path that starts \\ I have fudged this a little in the demo for the keen eyed

03 - with OGV.PNG

Maybe you only want to test the backups for the important databases or some backups are restored using other means and you don’t need to test them this way. There is a databases parameter which you can tab through the database names

04 - choosing databases.gif

In the ISE you can see the drop down of database names

05 - in ISE.PNG

If you have limited space you might not want to test the largest databases so you can use the MaxMb parameter to only restore databases under this size. In the example below, you can see that Fadetoblack was skipped and the system databases were skipped as they are not backing up to a shared location

06 - max mb.PNG

The databases are restored onto the server using a different name and the files are also named differently to avoid any conflicts. The default prefix is dbatools-testrestore- but you can change this using the prefix switch if you wish

02 data files.PNG

You may not want to use your special, super quick storage for performing your test restores. If you have separate data drives that you would like to use for the restores, you can specify those with the -DataDirectory and -LogDirectory. If you do not use these switches then the command will use the default data and log locations.

Its possible to reduce the amount of checks that are done. If you only want to do a Verify Only on the backup then you can use the -VerifyOnly switch, you can skip the DBCC check by using the -NoCheck switch and you can leave the test restore databases on the server using the -NoDrop switch

Happy Automating

 Get-Module dbatools

and update it using an Administrator PowerShell session with

 Update-Module dbatools

You may find that you get no output from Update-Module as you have the latest version. If you have not installed the module from the PowerShell Gallery using

Install-Module dbatools

Then you can use

Update-dbatools

Restoring an entire SQL Server user databases with PowerShell using dbatools

Posted on March 18, 2017 by RobSewell

All the good DBAs backup their databases.

A significant amount of SQL DBAs use Ola Hallengrens maintenance solution to do so.

This gives a folder structure like this

01 - folder structure.PNG

In my lab I had installed SQL 2016 on a server running Server 2016 TP5 which expired so I needed to re-install Windows and therefore needed to restore all of my user databases again. This was so easy using the dbatools module that I thought it was worth sharing to show how easy your disaster recovery process could be.

Having re-installed Windows and SQL and copied the backup files back to the server (although I could have used a network location), I then had to restore all of the user databases.

This is how I restored all of my user databases using the dbatools module command Restore-SQLBackupFromDirectory

 Restore-SqlBackupFromDirectory -SqlServer SQL2016N2 -Path '\\sql2016n2\c$\MSSQL\Backup\SQL2016N2'

Here it is in action

02 - Restore in action.PNG

This is the output

03 - output.PNG

That’s it. As simple as that. An entire SQL Servers user databases restored in one line of code. The latest Full, Latest Diff and latest Log backups for each user database all restored to the default file and log location without issue

If you look at the help for the command using

 Get-Help Restore-SqlBackupFromDirectory -ShowWindow

You will see that there is a -ReuseSourceFolderStructure switch which will use the file structure from the backup file if you have a complex file structure for your SQL files. You can also use a -NoRecovery switch so that you can add further backups, maybe you could use this for setting up mirroring or Always On Availability groups.

If you want to check the restore history of your SQL Server then you can use the Get-DbaRestoreHistory command. I like to use Out-GridView as it enables you to filter and sort easily

 Get-DbaRestoreHistory -SqlServer sql2016N2 | ogv

So you can see each file that was restored and where it was restored to

Happy Automating

 Get-Module dbatools

and update it using an Administrator PowerShell session with

 Update-Module dbatools

You may find that you get no output from Update-Module as you have the latest version. If you have not installed the module from the PowerShell Gallery using

&nbsp;Install-Module dbatools

Then you can use

&nbsp;Update-dbatools

Adding a PowerShell Job Step to an existing SQL Agent Job Step with PowerShell

Posted on March 13, 2017 by RobSewell

In my last post I showed how to add a T-SQL Job step to an existing SQL Agent Job. The process is exactly the same for a PowerShell job step.

As before I gathered the required jobs using Get-SQLAgentJob command from the sqlserver module which you can get by installing the latest SSMS from https://sqlps.io/dl

This code was run on PowerShell version 5 and will not run on PowerShell version 3 or earlier as it uses the where method
I put all of our jobs that I required on the estate into a variable called $Jobs. (You will need to fill the $Servers variable with the names of your instances, maybe from a database or CMS or a text file and of course you can add more logic to filter those servers as required.

$Jobs = (Get-SQLAgentJob -ServerInstance $Servers).Where{$_.Name -like '*PartOfNameOfJob*' -and $_.IsEnabled -eq $true}

Of course to add a PowerShell Job step the target server needs to be SQL 2008 or higher. If you have an estate with older versions it is worth creating a SMO server object (you can use a snippet) and checking the version and then getting the jobs like this

foreach($Server in $Servers)
{
 $srv = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server $Server
 if($srv.VersionMajor -ge 10)
 {
    $Jobs = $srv.JobServer.Jobs

and you could choose to create a CmdExec Job step for earlier verions in an else code block.

Once I have the Jobs I can iterate through them with a foreach loop

foreach($Job in $Jobs)

Then we need to create a new job step which is done with the following code

$NewStep = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Agent.JobStep

To find out what is available for this object you can run

$NewStep | Get-Member -MemberType Property

job-step-properties

We need to set the name, the parent (The job), the command, the subsystem, the on fail action, on success action and the id for the job step.
I set the command to a variable to make the code easier to read

$Command = "Get-Process"

the rest of the properties I fill in inside the loop. To find out what the properties can hold I look at MSDN for a Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Agent.JobStep The ID property is the number of the job step starting at 1 so this example will add a new job step that will be the first to run

$Name = $Job.Name
$JobServer = $srv.JobServer
$Job = $JobServer.Jobs[$Name]
$NewStep = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Agent.JobStep
$NewStep.Name = 'a descriptive name for my PowerShell script'
$NewStep.Parent = $Job
$NewStep.Command = $Command
$NewStep.SubSystem = 'PowerShell'
$NewStep.OnFailAction = 'QuitWithFailure'
$NewStep.OnSuccessAction = 'GoToNextStep'
$NewStep.ID = 1

Once the object has all of the properties all we need to do is create it and alter the job

$NewStep.create()
$Job.Alter()

and putting it all together it looks like this

foreach($Server in $Servers)
{
    $srv = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server $Server
    if($srv.VersionMajor -ge 10)
    {
       $Jobs = $srv.JobServer.Jobs.Where{$_.Name -like '*PartOfNameOfJob*' -and $_.IsEnabled -eq $true}
       foreach($Job in $Jobs)
       {
           $NewStep = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Agent.JobStep
           $NewStep.Name = 'a descriptive name for my PowerShell script'
           $NewStep.Parent = $Job
           $NewStep.Command = $Command
           $NewStep.SubSystem = 'PowerShell'
           $NewStep.OnFailAction = 'QuitWithFailure'
           $NewStep.OnSuccessAction = 'GoToNextStep'
           $NewStep.ID = 1
           $NewStep.create()
           $Job.Alter()
       }
    }

}

Happy Automating

VS Code PowerShell Snippets

Posted on March 12, 2017 by RobSewell

Just a quick post, as much as a reminder for me as anything, but also useful to those that attended my sessions last week where I talked about snippets in PowerShell ISE

Jeff Hicks wrote a post explaining how to create snippets in VS Code for PowerShell

I love using snippets so I went and converted my snippets list for ISE (available on GitHub) into the json required for VS Code (available on GitHub)

Here is an example of snippet

[code]"SMO-Server": {
        "prefix": "SMO-Server",
        "body": [
            "$$srv = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server $$Server"
        ],
        "description": "Creates a SQL Server SMO Object"
    },

I followed this process in this order

Click File –> Preferences –> User Snippets and type PowerShell or edit $env:\appdata\code\user\snippets\powershell.json

In order I converted the code in the existing snippets “Text” like this

Replace `$ with $$

Replace \ with \\

Replace ” with \”

\r for new line

\t for tab

Each line in “”

, at the end of each line in the body except the last one

Look out for red or green squiggles 🙂

I then add

The name of the snippet, first before the : in “”

The prefix is what you type to get the snippet

The body is the code following the above Find and Replaces

The description is the description!!

and save and I have snippets in VS Code 🙂

That should help you to convert existing ISE snippets into VS Code PowerShell snippets and save you time and keystrokes 🙂

Quickly Creating Test Users in SQL Server with PowerShell using the sqlserver module and dbatools

Posted on March 6, 2017 by RobSewell

One of the most visited posts on my blog is nearly two and half years old now – Add User to SQL Server Database Role with PowerShell and Quickly Creating Test Users. I thought it was time to update it and use the latest sqlserver module and the dbatools module.

You can get the latest version of the sqlserver module by installing SSMS 2016. The PASS PowerShell Virtual Chapter have created a short link to make this easier for you to remember: https://sqlps.io/dl

Once you have downloaded and installed SSMS you can load the module.

Import-Module sqlserver

There is one situation where you will get an error loading the sqlserver module into PowerShell. If you have the SQLPS module already imported then you will get the following error:

Import-Module : The following error occurred while loading the extended type data file:

In that case you will need to remove the SQLPS module first.

Remove-Module sqlps
Import-Module sqlserver

The original post dealt with creating a number of test users for a database and assigning them to different roles quickly and easily.

First let’s quickly create a list of Admin users and a list of Service Users and save them in a text file.

$i = 0
while($I -lt 100)
{
"Beard_Service_User$i" | Out-File 'C:\temp\Users.txt' -Append
$i++
}

$i = 0
while($I -lt 10)
{
"Beard_Service_Admin_$i" | Out-File 'C:\temp\Admins.txt' -Append
$i++
}

Now that we have those users in files we can assign them to a variable by using Get-Content

$Admins = Get-Content 'C:\temp\Admins.txt'

Of course we can use any source for our users – a database, an excel file, Active Directory or even just type them in.

We can use the Add-SQLLogin command from the sqlserver module to add our users as SQL Logins, but at present we cannot add them as database users and assign them to a role.

If we want to add a Windows Group or a Windows User to our SQL Server we can do so using:

Add-SqlLogin -ServerInstance $Server -LoginName $User -LoginType WindowsUser -DefaultDatabase tempdb -Enable -GrantConnectSql

Notice that we need to enable and grant connect SQL to the user.

If we want to add a SQL login the code is pretty much the same but we either have to enter the password in an authentication box or pass in a PSCredential object holding the username and password. Keeping credentials secure in PowerShell scripts is outside the scope of this post and the requirement is for none-live environments so we will pass in the same password for all users as a string to the script. You may want or be required to achieve this in a different fashion.

 $Pass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $Password -AsPlainText -Force
$Credential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $User, $Pass
Add-SqlLogin -ServerInstance $Server -LoginName $User -LoginType $LoginType -DefaultDatabase tempdb -Enable -GrantConnectSql -LoginPSCredential $Credential

We can ensure that we are not trying to add logins that already exist using

 if(!($srv.Logins.Contains($User)))
{

The $srv is a SQL Server Management Server Object which you can create using a snippet. I blogged about snippets here and you can find my list of snippets on github here. However, today I am going to use the dbatools module to create a SMO Server Object using the Connect-DbaSqlServer command and assign the server and the database to a variable:

 # Create a SQL Server SMO Object
$srv = Connect-DbaSqlServer -SqlServer $server
$db = $srv.Databases[$Database]

Once we have our Logins we need to create our database users:

 $usr = New-Object ('Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.User') ($db, $User)
$usr.Login = $User
$usr.Create()

and add them to a database role.

#Add User to the Role
$db.roles[$role].AddMember($User)

I created a little function to call in the script and then simply loop through our users and admins and call the function.

foreach($User in $Users)
{
Add-UserToRole -Password $Password -User $user -Server $server -Role $Userrole  -LoginType SQLLogin
}

foreach($User in $Admins)
{
Add-UserToRole -Password $Password -User $user -Server $server -Role $adminrole  -LoginType SQLLogin
}

To check that they have been added correctly I simply use the Get-DbaRoleMember command from dbatools and output it to Out-GridView using the alias ogv as I am on the command line:

Get-DbaRoleMember -SqlInstance $server |ogv

which looks like this:

Once we need to clean up the logins and users we can use the Get-SQLLogin and Remove-SQLLogin commands from the sqlserver module to remove the logins and if we do that first we can then use the dbatools command Remove-SQLOrphanuser to remove the orphaned users 🙂 (I thought that was rather cunning!)

(Get-SqlLogin -ServerInstance $server).Where{$_.Name -like '*Beard_Service_*'}|Remove-SqlLogin

Remove-SQLOrphanUser -SqlServer $Server -databases $database

The Remove-SQLLogin will prompt for confirmation and the result of the Remove-SQLOrphanUser looks like this

When you are looking at doing this type of automation with PowerShell, you should remember always to make use of Get-Command, Get-Help and Get-Member. That will enable you to work out how to do an awful lot. I have a short video on youtube about this:

and when you get stuck come and ask in the SQL Server Slack at https://sqlps.io/slack. You will find a powershellhelp channel in there.

Here is the complete code:

#Requires -module sqlserver
#Requires -module dbatools

### Define some variables
$server = ''
$Password = "Password"
$Database = 'TheBeardsDatabase'
$Admins = Get-Content 'C:\temp\Admins.txt'
$Users = Get-Content 'C:\temp\Users.txt'
$LoginType = 'SQLLogin'
$userrole =  'Users'
$adminrole = 'Admin'

# Create a SQL Server SMO Object
$srv = Connect-DbaSqlServer -SqlServer $server
$db = $srv.Databases[$Database]

function Add-UserToRole
{
param
(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
ValueFromPipeline=$true,
ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,
ValueFromRemainingArguments=$false)]
[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
[string]$Password,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
ValueFromPipeline=$true,
ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,
ValueFromRemainingArguments=$false)]
[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
[string]$User,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
ValueFromPipeline=$true,
ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,
ValueFromRemainingArguments=$false)]
[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
[string]$Server,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
ValueFromPipeline=$true,
ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,
ValueFromRemainingArguments=$false)]
[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
[string]$Role,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
ValueFromPipeline=$true,
ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,
ValueFromRemainingArguments=$false)]
[ValidateSet("SQLLogin", "WindowsGroup", "WindowsUser")]
[string]$LoginType
)

if(!($srv.Logins.Contains($User)))
{
if($LoginType -eq 'SQLLogin')
{
$Pass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $Password -AsPlainText -Force
$Credential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $User, $Pass
Add-SqlLogin -ServerInstance $Server -LoginName $User -LoginType $LoginType -DefaultDatabase tempdb -Enable -GrantConnectSql -LoginPSCredential $Credential
}
elseif($LoginType -eq 'WindowsGroup' -or $LoginType -eq 'WindowsUser')
{
Add-SqlLogin -ServerInstance $Server -LoginName $User -LoginType $LoginType -DefaultDatabase tempdb -Enable -GrantConnectSql
}
}
if (!($db.Users.Contains($User)))
{

# Add user to database

$usr = New-Object ('Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.User') ($db, $User)
$usr.Login = $User
$usr.Create()

}
#Add User to the Role
$db.roles[$role].AddMember($User)
}

foreach($User in $Users)
{
Add-UserToRole -Password $Password -User $user -Server $server -Role $Userrole -LoginType SQLLogin
}

foreach($User in $Admins)
{
Add-UserToRole -Password $Password -User $user -Server $server -Role $adminrole -LoginType SQLLogin
}

Get-DbaRoleMember -SqlInstance $server |ogv

Happy Automating!

SQL DBA with A Beard

He's a SQL DBA and he has a beard

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