functions/Find-DBInvalidSettings.ps1
function Find-DBInvalidSettings { <# .SYNOPSIS Finds settings and options that may or may not be invalid depending upon design choices. They are typically invalid however and should be investigated. .DESCRIPTION Finds settings and options that may or may not be invalid depending upon design choices. They are typically invalid however and should be investigated. Any option marked with an X will typically have a non-standard setting, and or may not be an issue and should be investigated. This function does not fix any invalid settings. That is left to the DBA. .PARAMETER ServerInstance The sql server instance to connect to. .PARAMETER Credentials Specifies credentials to connect to the database with. If not supplied then a trusted connection will be used. .PARAMETER CollationName The collation name you expect your server and databases to be using. Defaults to "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" .PARAMETER Timeout The wait time (in seconds) before terminating the attempt to execute a command and generating an error. The default is 30 seconds. .OUTPUTS .EXAMPLE PS> $result = Find-DBInvalidSettings -ServerInstance "ServerName" PS> $result.ServerInstance PS> $result.ServerOptions | Format-Table PS> $result.ServerSettings PS> $result.FileGrowths | Format-Table PS> $result.DatabaseSettings | Format-Table PS> $result.DatabaseObjects | Format-Table .LINK https://github.com/tcartwright/tcdbtools .NOTES Author: Tim Cartwright #> [CmdletBinding()] param ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [string]$ServerInstance, [pscredential]$Credentials, [string]$CollationName = "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS", [int]$Timeout = 30 ) begin { $connection = New-DBSQLConnection -ServerInstance $ServerInstance -Database "master" -Credentials $Credentials $ret = [InvalidSettings]::new() $ret.ServerInstance = $ServerInstance } process { try { <# # FIND ALL THE POSSIBLE APPROPRIATE COLUMNS THAT COULD CONTAIN THE VALUE #> $connection.Open() $sql = (GetSQLFileContent -fileName "FindInvalidSettings.sql") -f $Database $parameters = @( (New-DBSqlParameter -name "desired_collation" -type VarChar -size 512 -value $CollationName) ) $results = Invoke-DBDataSetQuery -conn $connection -sql $sql -parameters $parameters -timeout $Timeout $ret.ServerOptions = ConvertFrom-DataTable -DataTable $results.Tables[1] $ret.ServerSettings = ConvertFrom-DataTable -DataTable $results.Tables[3] $ret.FileGrowths = ConvertFrom-DataTable -DataTable $results.Tables[5] $ret.DatabaseSettings = ConvertFrom-DataTable -DataTable $results.Tables[7] $ret.DatabaseObjects = ConvertFrom-DataTable -DataTable $results.Tables[9] } finally { if ($connection) { $connection.Dispose() } } } end { return $ret } } |