Tag: Inventory
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DBA Scripts: Get Database Summary
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Server & Configuration › Server Inventory One Row Per Database, Every Issue Flagged in One Column Checking every database on an instance one at a time, state here, recovery model there, backup age in a third window, doesn’t scale, and it’s exactly the…
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DBA Scripts: Get Database Inventory
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Server & Configuration › Server Inventory One Query, Every Database’s Migration Readiness Before you migrate, upgrade, or consolidate anything, you need one honest answer per database: is it actually online, what recovery model is it running, and is its compatibility level going to…
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DBA Scripts: Server Inventory
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Server & Configuration An unfamiliar server · the first pass This is the step everything else is read against. A wait, a permission, a migration plan: none of them mean what they appear to mean until you know what the server actually is.…
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DBA Scripts: Get Linked Servers
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Server & Configuration › Server Inventory Choose the linked-server check you need Start with Get-LinkedServerConnectivity to check whether a linked server is reachable and see the returned error detail. For a migration pre-check, run Get-LinkedServerAndJobInventory for logins, linked servers, and SQL Agent jobs.…
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DBA Scripts: Get Patch Level
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Server & Configuration › Server Inventory Building a Patch Compliance Inventory Across an Estate Version and Edition answers “what is this one instance running” as a quick single-server snapshot. This script answers a related but different question: run it across every server you…
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DBA Scripts: Get OS and Hardware Info
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Server & Configuration › Server Inventory What Is This Server Actually Running On Before you can reason about performance, capacity, or whether a setting makes sense, you need the basics: how much CPU and memory the box actually has, what OS it’s running,…
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DBA Scripts: Get Login and Job Inventory
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Security Two Plain Inventories Every Migration Plan Needs Permissions and Role Membership and SQL Agent and Jobs cover the deep dive. These two are the plain inventory underneath both: Get-LoginInventory: the logins a migration has to recreate, by type and status. No permission…
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DBA Scripts: Get Database Snapshot Inventory
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Storage & Capacity The Snapshot Everyone Forgot They Created A database snapshot is created for one specific reason, a pre-deployment rollback point, a reporting-consistency workaround, a test before a risky change, and then it just sits there. Snapshots don’t show up in a…
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