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Managing Ola Hallengrens scripts with Powershell

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I presented for the PASS Powershell Virtual Chapter on June 15th, 2016
It was an online session and it was recorded, the youtube video of it is here

I figured out what was wrong with the two little demo fails.
I was pressing F8 to only execute my selection but because of a CLS I didn’t see the error message.
That function that I use to load a script from a relative path doesn’t work when you press F8, only when you run the whole script with F5
Apparently F8 gives you a different execution context.

And the reason why the Excel demo didn’t produce 2 paths is because I specified the -SHOW option in the first one, the second export option failed because the excel file was in use by Excel itself

The slides and scripts can be downloaded here

About the author

André Kamman

I’m a SQL Server consultant based in the Netherlands. I’m a SQL Server MVP and I’m the co-founder and current chairman of the Dutch PASS Chapter and a member of the volunteer team for the Dutch SQL Saturday’s. I’ve done a whole lot of pure DBA work managing 100′s of servers and learning something new every day.

These days I spend a lot of time on just a few servers containing some large databases and the better part of the day is spent with SSIS. In both roles I’ve been using Powershell a lot. I joke sometimes that I replaced myself with a powershell script when leaving the DBA role, but these days I automate so much that I have to watch myself and not actually do just that

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