In my previous post, I shared some of the issues I had when attempting to get Add-Member to work with the SMO Database object. In this post, I’ll share some of the fruits of that experience as I show how to quickly determine if a database can have its log backed up through Powershell and [...]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working with SMO to implement some maintenance routines across my clients. Because of the nature of most of my clients, Powershell is almost always the answer. I have been trying to simplify the coding of some of these scripts by using Add-Member. I had some issues with the [...]
I wish I could say that this was a simple task, but as I dove into SMO and some of its limitations, I soon discovered this would more difficult than I had imagined. I’m happy to share some background and some of the trials I had to overcome so that you might avoid having to [...]
I’ve been working a lot lately with SMO and the differences between the various versions between SQL 2005, 2008, and 2012. Through this process, I’ve come to understand why “[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName” is not a good option in PowerShell. Not only is it obsolete, it doesn’t allow you to choose which version of the SMO library you [...]