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Thinking About Automation

Chrissy LeMaire has a series of thoughts on this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, and it was worth separating out from the rest of today’s batch:

Y’all know what I’m gonna say here! I love automation and PowerShell. I know for a fact that PowerShell and T-SQL together are the future of SQL Server administration. As someone who often presents about dbatools, the popular SQL PowerShell community project, I’ve seen the excitement and relief that PowerShell automation brings to SQL Server Database Pros.

From making it way easier to migrate entire instances to automating backup testing and verification, PowerShell makes it straight up more enjoyable to be a DBA.

There’s a lot of well-deserved plugging of dbatools.  Hint, hint.