SQL Server 2014 with PowerShell v5 Cookbook

SQL Server 2014 with PowerShell v5 Cookbook

By : Donabel Santos

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SQL Server 2014 with PowerShell v5 Cookbook

By: Donabel Santos

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Overview of this book

SQL Server 2014 with PowerShell v5 Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with SQL Server and PowerShell

Introduction

Working with the sample code

Installing SQL Server using PowerShell

Installing SQL Server Management Objects

Loading SMO assemblies

Exploring the SQL Server PowerShell hierarchy

Discovering SQL-related cmdlets and modules

Creating a SQL Server Instance Object

Exploring SMO Server Objects

SQL Server and PowerShell Basic Tasks

Introduction

Listing SQL Server instances

Discovering SQL Server services

Starting/stopping SQL Server services

Listing SQL Server configuration settings

Changing SQL Server Instance configurations

Searching for database objects

Scripting SQL Server Stored Procedures

Creating a database

Altering database properties

Dropping a database

Changing database owner

Creating a table

Creating a view

Creating a stored procedure

Creating a trigger

Creating an index

Executing a query/SQL script

Performing bulk export using Invoke-SqlCmd

Performing bulk export using the bcp command-line utility

Performing bulk import using BULK INSERT

Performing bulk import using the bcp command-line utility

Connecting to an Azure SQL database

Creating a table in an Azure SQL database

Basic Administration

Introduction

Creating a SQL Server instance inventory

Creating a SQL Server database inventory

Listing installed hotfixes and Service Packs

Listing running/blocking processes

Killing a blocking process

Checking disk space usage

Setting up WMI server event alerts

Detaching a database

Attaching a database

Copying a database

Executing SQL query to multiple servers

Creating a filegroup

Adding a secondary data file to a filegroup

Increase data file size

Moving an index to a different filegroup

Checking index fragmentation

Reorganizing/rebuilding an index

Running DBCC commands

Setting up Database Mail

Listing SQL Server Jobs

Adding a SQL Server operator

Creating a SQL Server Job

Adding a SQL Server event alert

Running an SQL Server Job

Scheduling a SQL Server Job

Security

Introduction

Listing SQL Server service accounts

Changing SQL Server service account

Listing authentication mode

Changing authentication mode

Listing SQL Server log errors

Listing failed login attempts

Enabling Common Criteria compliance

Listing logins, users, and database mappings

Listing login/user roles and permissions

Creating a user-defined server role

Creating a login

Assigning permissions and roles to a login

Creating a database user

Assigning permissions to a database user

Creating a database role

Fixing orphaned users

Creating a credential

Creating a proxy

Backup and Restore

Introduction

Changing database recovery model

Checking last backup date

Creating a backup device

Listing backup header and FileList information

Creating a full backup

Creating a backup on Mirrored Media Sets

Creating a differential backup

Creating a transaction log backup

Creating a filegroup backup

Restoring a database to a point-in-time

Performing an online piecemeal restore

Backing up database to Azure Blob storage

Restoring database from Azure Blob storage

Advanced Administration

Introduction

Connecting to LocalDB

Creating a new LocalDB instance

Listing database snapshots

Creating a database snapshot

Dropping a database snapshot

Enabling FileStream

Setting up a FileStream filegroup

Adding a FileTable

Adding full-text catalog

Adding full-text index

Creating a memory-optimized table

Creating a database master key

Creating a certificate

Creating symmetric and asymmetric keys

Setting up Transparent Data Encryption

Audit and Policies

Introduction

Enabling/disabling change tracking

Configuring SQL Server Audit

Listing facets and their properties

Running and saving a profiler trace event

Extracting the contents of a trace file

High Availability with AlwaysOn

Introduction

Installing the Failover Cluster feature on Windows

Enabling TCP and named pipes in SQL Server

Enabling AlwaysOn in SQL Server

Creating and enabling the HADR endpoint

Granting the CONNECT permission to the HADR endpoint

Creating an AlwaysOn Availability Group

Joining the secondary replicas to Availability Group

Adding an availability database to an Availability Group

Creating an Availability Group listener

Testing the Availability Group failover

Monitoring the health of an Availability Group

SQL Server Development

Introduction

Importing data from a text file

Exporting records to a text file

Adding files to a FileTable

Inserting XML into SQL Server

Extracting XML from SQL Server

Creating an RSS feed from SQL Server content

Applying XSL to an RSS feed

Creating a JSON file from SQL Server

Storing binary data in SQL Server

Extracting binary data from SQL Server

Creating a new assembly

Listing user-defined assemblies

Extracting user-defined assemblies

Business Intelligence

Introduction

Listing items in your SSRS Report Server

Listing SSRS report properties

Using ReportViewer to view your SSRS report

Downloading an SSRS report in Excel and as a PDF

Creating an SSRS folder

Creating an SSRS data source

Changing an SSRS report's data source reference

Uploading an SSRS report to Report Manager

Downloading all SSRS report RDL files

Adding a user with a role to SSRS report

Creating folders in an SSIS package store and MSDB

Deploying an SSIS package to the package store

Executing an SSIS package stored in a package store or filesystem

Downloading an SSIS package to a file

Creating an SSISDB catalog

Creating an SSISDB folder

Deploying an ISPAC file to SSISDB

Executing an SSIS package stored in SSISDB

Listing SSAS cmdlets

Listing SSAS instance properties

Backing up an SSAS database

Restoring an SSAS database

Processing an SSAS cube

Helpful PowerShell Snippets

Introduction

Documenting PowerShell script for Get-Help

Getting history

Getting a timestamp

Getting more error messages

Listing processes

Getting aliases

Exporting to CSV and XML

Using Invoke-Expression

Testing regular expressions

Creating an HTML report

Parsing XML

Extracting data from a web service

Using PowerShell remoting

PowerShell Primer

Introduction

Understanding the need for PowerShell

Setting up the environment

Running PowerShell scripts

Learning PowerShell basics

Scripting syntax

Converting scripts into functions

Listing notable PowerShell features

Exploring more PowerShell

Creating a SQL Server VM

Introduction

Terminologies

Downloading software

VM details and accounts

Creating an empty virtual machine

Installing Windows Server 2012 R2 as guest OS

Installing VMware tools

Making a snapshot as a baseline

Configuring a domain controller (optional)

Creating domain accounts

Installing SQL Server 2014 on a VM

Configuring Reporting Services in native mode

Installing sample databases

Installing PowerShell V5

Using SQL Server on a Windows Azure VM

Index

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Chapter 7. Audit and Policies

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Enabling/disabling change tracking
Configuring SQL Server Audit
Listing facets and their properties
Listing policies
Exporting a policy
Importing a policy
Creating a condition
Creating a policy
Evaluating a policy
Running and saving a profile trace event
Extracting the contents of a trace file

SQL Server 2014 with PowerShell v5 Cookbook

By : Donabel Santos

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By: Donabel Santos

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Chapter 7. Audit and Policies