I recently presented a session on "Automate Operational Readiness and Validation Testing of SQL Server with PowerShell and Pester" for the PowerShell Virtual Chapter of SQL PASS.
The video from that presentation is now available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds1YO_Dpx0I
Both the code and slide deck from the presentation can be found in my presentations repository on GitHub.
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Category: Operational Validation
I'll be presenting a webinar on how to "Automate Operational Readiness and Validation Testing of SQL Server with PowerShell and Pester" for the PowerShell Virtual Chapter of SQL PASS on Wednesday, November 16th at 11am CST.
How do you know whether or not all of the SQL Servers in your environment are configured based on your organizations standards? How do you know whether or not they are all operating properly when maintenance is performed on the systems in your environment? During this Read more [...]
I've previously published articles on separating environmental code from structural code for both DSC (Desired State Configuration) and Operational Validation or Readiness Tests. This article picks up where I left off last week in "Separating Environmental Code from Structural Code in PowerShell Operational Validation Tests".
As many existing open source PowerShell functions as possible have been used in the examples shown in this blog article instead of re-inventing the wheel and rewriting everything Read more [...]
I've recently been working with Altaro VM Backup and I must say that I've been very impressed with the ease and simplicity of the product. The back-end portion of the product can run on a virtual or physical server with or without the GUI (Server Core is supported). It can backup to just about any type of drive (local disk, UNC path, USB drive, etc). It doesn't require SQL Server. In my environment, adding a Hyper-V server (running Windows Server 2012 R2) installed a service on the Hypervisor, but Read more [...]
I recently wrote a Pester test that performs some basic operational validation (smoke tests) of SQL Servers. I've previously written similar tests as functions as shown in my "Write Dynamic Unit Tests for your PowerShell Code with Pester" blog article, but I decided to write this one as a script with the naming convention that seems to be recommended. The name of this particular test is "Validate-MrSQLServer.Tests.ps1". You're probably thinking "Validate" isn't an approved verb and you're right, Read more [...]