1. What it is and why you should use it
#DBATools
What it is and why you should use it

2. Who uses PowerShell?

3. Cmdlets About 100 PoSH cmdlets for SQL from Microsoft
About 350 PoSH cmdlets for SQL from dba tools

4. Open Source code reviewed by many people Pester tested
Code is available
Health check is available

5. What can you use powershell for?
Build and configure a VM
Configure Windows including clustering
Install and configure SQL
CI/CD
All of these are Repeatable

6. universal
PoSH is even available on Linux

7. #Help
Available on Slack

8. What is the coolest thing you can do with DBATools?
1 line of PoSH to move an entire instance to another (think upgrade)
Some former pains are now easy i.e. Copy-DbaLogin (keeps the SID)
Copy-DbaLogin –Source server1 –Destination server2 –Login mylogin

9. History Started with desire to migrate a server quickly
After that they split the cmdlets out so if you don’t need to migrate an entire instance, you can just move what you need.

10. Demo

11. Additional links DBATools https://dbatools.io
Slack:
YouTube:
Interview