Dear reader, before continue please open a PowerShell console and run the following command:

Install-Module -Name dbatools

If you are doing this on the date of this blog post, you have just installed dbatools v1.0!

After more than 200 commits, the work of more than 20 contributors and 20 days since the last published version, dbatools v1.0 is live!

To all of you that have contributed direct or indirectly to the module a big thank you!

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(TSQL2sDay)

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Ewald Cress ( blog  |  twitter ) and is all about “folks who have made a difference” in our careers.

Thank you, Ewald! This is a great topic!

Here is my short list

Paulo Silva ( in )

He was my first boss in the IT world! I was his apprentice when I started my internship. He was going to move to a manager position and I  had to continue his work. He was responsible for the beginning of my career with SQL Server 2000 and VB6.

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Like the blog post title states this is all about sharing with others! My idea is to share with the community which PowerShell modules you are using.

Let me introduce to you the PowerShell Modules Central

PowerShellModulesCentral is a GitHub repository that was founded as a central hub to a list of PowerShell modules that people know/use. Each module has a file describing its name, basic information about the module, as well as one or more blog posts/videos from people that have written about or used them.

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