Announcing the PS.SQL Module
I’ve been doing a ton of work with SQL and PowerShell over the last year and a half and have come up with some pretty good tools to help me along the way. We even built a module out of them at work and use it in a dozen or more scripts every day, when it finally occurred to me that my readers might like to use them too. And the PS.SQL Module was born.
Shrink SQL Log Files
If you’re a Windows Administrator and have Microsoft SQL Servers in your environment–and you’d be a rare bird if you didn’t–then you’ve encountered this problem. Backups are missed for awhile, massive restore is done, something happens and your transaction log file grows way too big. It’s not uncommon to find it being much larger then the actual database! If you’re like me you would RDP to the server, check out the data drive and see that the log file itself was out of size. You’d then hit Google to find out how to do a shrink file, then have open SQL Management Studio and try to figure out the logical name of the log file, then run the query. Usually about 20 minutes of lookups, all so you can run a SQL query that typically takes a few seconds to complete. Time to address this using PowerShell.
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