How do you document your SQL Server environments? I can remember walking through Brent Ozar’s takeover script back in the day and how cumbersome it was to put all that information together. We have a few more options available to us now. In this episode, we discuss a listener question along with some options for doing server inventories. SQL Trail is coming on March 18th. Will we see you there?
- Building an inventory view of SQL Servers with dbatools.
- SQL Power Doc is a collection of Windows PowerShell scripts and modules that discover, document, and diagnose SQL Server instances and their underlying Windows OS & machine configurations.
- Inventory with nmap — Make sure to get approval for this!
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“Hi, I’m the first DBA this company’s ever had. Okay, where are the databases? Well, we know of these two instances. Good luck finding the rest of them.”
Kevin Feasel
3 Takeaways
- Working with data in Excel is ok by us, but just remember what the database is doing for you.
- How are you leveraging dbatools to do server inventory?
- Content Management Server is a great way to organize your databases rather than just inventory them.
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