Comments on: Get SQL database size using Windows Powershell

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:24:58 +0000

I’m a novice at powershell and can’t figure out how to run this. I worked out that it has a dependency on a library from Quest, which I installed and loaded with ‘add_PSSnapin’, and after editing the directory path the script got off to a good start. However it crashed out with an error ‘Get-QADComputer: a referral was returned from the server’. I guessed permissions might be involved so logged on as a domain administrator, and ran ‘powershell’ with ‘run as admin’ but that didn’t help. I’m trying it under Windows 7, which might be related!

Any advice would be apppreciated

By: admin

admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:34:57 +0000

Thanks for the improvement Luc!
I have never been a big star in WQL (have to learn yet another syntax), but I understand how that will make it quicker.
Hugo

By: LucD

LucD — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:14:17 +0000

Nice script Hugo.
If you replace the inner loop by this:

foreach ($Instance in (Get-WmiObject -class Win32_Service -computerName $Server.Name -filter “name like ‘mssql%’”))

the script will run considerably faster (at least in my environment ;-) )