My last post had a lot of information about the new .NET PowerShell notebooks including installation instructions. .NET Notebooks are Jupyter Notebooks that use .NET core to enable C#, F# and PowerShell kernels. Use Cases One of the main benefits that I see for Jupyter Notebooks for Ops folk is that the results of the […]
I like to write Pester checks to make sure that all is as expected! This is just a quick post as much to help me remember this script 🙂 This is a quick Pester test I wrote to ensure that some SQL Scripts in a directory would parse so there was some guarantee that they […]
I was going through my demo for the South Coast User Group meeting tonight and decided to add some details about the Because parameter available in the Pester pre-release version 4.2.0. To install a pre-release version you need to get the latest  PowerShellGet module. This is pre-installed with PowerShell v6 but for earlier versions open PowerShell as […]
TagLine – My goal – Chrissy will appreciate Unit Tests one day 🙂 Chrissy has written about dbachecks the new up and coming community driven open source PowerShell module for SQL DBAs to validate their SQL Server estate. we have taken some of the ideas that we have presented about a way of using dbatools […]
In my previous posts about writing your first Pester Test and looping through instances I described how you can start to validate that your SQL Server is how YOU want it to be. Unavailable machines Once you begin to have a number of tests for a number of instances you want to be able to […]
In my last post I showed you how to write your first Pester test to validate something. Here’s a recap Decide the information you wish to test Understand how to get it with PowerShell Understand what makes it pass and what makes it fail Write a Pester Test You probably have more than one instance […]
I was in Glasgow this Friday enjoying the fantastic hospitality of the Glasgow SQL User Group @SQLGlasgow and presenting sessions with Andre Kamman, William Durkin and Chrissy LeMaire I presented “Green is Good Red is Bad – Turning your checklists into Pester Tests”. I had to make sure I had enough energy beforehand so I treated myself […]
I have left the heat and humidity of Singapore where I have been presenting at the PowerShell Conference Asia and DevOpsDays Singapore to travel to Seattle for PASS Summit. During my Green is Good – Red is Bad session someone asked me if the PowerBi that I showed at the end would work with any […]
I have written a module SQLDiagAPI for consuming the SQL Server Diagnostics API with PowerShell. I blogged about how I used Pester to develop one of the functions . Whilst writing Get-SQLDiagFix I wrote some Pester Tests to make sure that the output from the code was as expected. Pester For those that don’t know. […]
Whilst I was at PSCONFEU I presented a session on writing pester tests instead of using checklists. You can see it here During the talk I showed the pester test that I use to make sure that everything is ready for my presentation. A couple of people have asked me about this and wanted to know more so […]