dbachecks has seen the light about two months ago. As I’m writing this blog post, the module counts with more than 2600 downloads just from the PowerShell gallery . The module has about 110 configurable checks that make our live easier!

Today I will write about an option that I think users still do not realize that exists.

The default

dbachecks works with the values previously saved (for that we use Set-DbcConfig). This means that when we start a new session and the last session has changed any configuration, that configuration is now, by default, the one that will be used in the new session.

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I’m currently working on a SQL code migration from Firebird to SQL Server and I hit an error that I haven’t seen for some time.

The error message is the following:

Msg 206, Level 16, State 2, Line 4 Operand type clash: datetime2 is incompatible with int

This ringed the bell right away! Somewhere on the code someone was trying to do an arithmetic calculation without using the proper function.

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dbachecks is a new PowerShell module from the SQL Server Community! For more information, read introducing dbachecks .

If you don’t know dbachecks, we have released a good amount of blog posts that will help you:

• Announcing dbachecks – Configurable PowerShell Validation For Your SQL Instances by Rob Sewell
• introducing dbachecks - a new module from the dbatools team! by Chrissy LeMaire
• install dbachecks by Chrissy LeMaire
• dbachecks commands by Chrissy LeMaire
• dbachecks – Using Power BI dashboards to analyse results by Cláudio Silva
• My wrapper for dbachecks by Tony Wilhelm
• Checking backups with dbachecks by Jess Promfret
• dbachecks please! by Garry Bargsley
• dbachecks – Configuration Deep Dive by Rob Sewell
• Test Log Shipping with dbachecks
• Checking your backup strategy with dbachecks by Joshua Corrick
• Enterprise-level reporting with dbachecks by Jason Squires
• Adding your own checks to dbachecks by Shane O’Neill
• dbachecks - A different approach for an in-progress and incremental validation by Cláudio Silva

Other documentation:

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For the last couple of months, members of the dbatools team have been working on a new PowerShell module called dbachecks. This open source PowerShell module will enable you to validate your SQL Instances. Today it is released for you all to start to use 🙂

dbachecks launch - the blog posts series

Here you can find a list of the blog posts made available today:

• Announcing dbachecks – Configurable PowerShell Validation For Your SQL Instances by Rob Sewell

• introducing dbachecks - a new module from the dbatools team! by Chrissy LeMaire
• install dbachecks by Chrissy LeMaire
• dbachecks commands by Chrissy LeMaire
• dbachecks – Using Power BI dashboards to analyse results by Cláudio Silva
• My wrapper for dbachecks by Tony Wilhelm
• Checking backups with dbachecks by Jess Promfret
• dbachecks please! by Garry Bargsley
• dbachecks – Configuration Deep Dive by Rob Sewell
• Test Log Shipping with dbachecks
• Checking your backup strategy with dbachecks by Joshua Corrick
• Enterprise-level reporting with dbachecks by Jason Squires
• Adding your own checks to dbachecks by Shane O’Neill
• dbachecks - A different approach for an in-progress and incremental validation by Cláudio Silva

Other documentation:

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One of the main DBA’s duties is to guarantee that SQL Server instances are up-to-date in terms of patches (Service Packs, Cumulative Updates or Security Updates).

Recently, dbatools added a new command that turns this validation a piece of cake. Thanks to Simone Bizzotto (@niphlod) for baking up the command that Shawn Melton (@wsmelton) and I initially requested.

Some dbatools users already expressed their happiness with the command, like Jess Pomfret did here

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