dbatools VS Install-SqlServer

Compare dbatools vs Install-SqlServer and see what are their differences.

dbatools

🚀 SQL Server automation and instance migrations have never been safer, faster or freer (by dataplat)

Install-SqlServer

Powershell script to install MS SQL Server unattended (by majkinetor)
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dbatools Install-SqlServer
5 1
2,311 19
0.9% -
9.2 3.6
13 days ago 20 days ago
PowerShell PowerShell
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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dbatools

Posts with mentions or reviews of dbatools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-28.

Install-SqlServer

Posts with mentions or reviews of Install-SqlServer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-02.
  • Bash_unit – bash unit testing framework
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2021
    We have tones of PowerShell and it works like a charm, although we have some experienced posh devs

    We also test REST backend in PowerShell using Pester.

    PowerShell is preferred in this house because

    a) you can run it on any Windows OS on the spot and modify it in ad hoc manner, you can even debug it with breakpoints etc easily Also our Linux machines have it.

    b) its powerful, you can do anything in it with few lines of code (one case: we did 10 million SOAP requests per day for entire country)

    c) many Windows toolsets use it like SqlServer, IIS etc. which makes management way easier (for example we use [1] to install sql server on all dev/prod machines)

    d) we find it way easier to keep CI/CD vars in PowerShell hashtables then in yaml, so our yaml fiels are one liners and everything works locally.

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    [1] https://github.com/majkinetor/Install-SqlServer

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dbatools and Install-SqlServer you can also consider the following projects:

ansible.windows - Windows core collection for Ansible

PSWriteHTML - PSWriteHTML is PowerShell Module to generate beautiful HTML reports, pages, emails without any knowledge of HTML, CSS or JavaScript. To get started basics PowerShell knowledge is required.

aws-tools-for-powershell - The AWS Tools for PowerShell lets developers and administrators manage their AWS services from the PowerShell scripting environment.

SqlServerDsc - This module contains DSC resources for deployment and configuration of Microsoft SQL Server.

vscode-powershell - Provides PowerShell language and debugging support for Visual Studio Code

PowerShellForGitHub - Microsoft PowerShell wrapper for GitHub API

PSWritePDF - PowerShell Module to create, edit, split, merge PDF files on Windows / Linux and MacOS

community.windows - Windows community collection for Ansible

PSKoans - A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language through Pester unit testing.

EditorSyntax - Syntax highlighting files for editors (VSCode, Atom, SublimeText, TextMate, etc) and GitHub!

au-packages - Chocolatey packages by majkinetor

sqlserver-kit - Useful links, scripts, tools and best practice for Microsoft SQL Server Database