front matter
There are over 20 million active installs of Microsoft SQL Server, with continued growth month after month. The SQL Server/Azure Data Community also continues to grow, currently with over 77,000 members across more than 40 countries. The authors Chrissy LeMaire, Rob Sewell, Jess Pomfret, and Cláudio Silva have spent many years being very active in this community—teaching, sharing, and empowering. They have been part of the charge that turned a technology into a community.
A couple of years ago, one of the authors and the creator of dbatools, Chrissy LeMaire, came on my show, Data Exposed, to show data professionals how to automate disaster recovery in SQL Server with dbatools. I was immediately struck by Chrissy’s charisma and ability to take complex topics and make them simple. She also made it clear that dbatools was built by and for the community and is free: “Instance migrations and best practice implementations have never been safer, faster, or freer.” dbatools enables data professionals to automate SQL Server tasks with PowerShell. Not only that, but dbatools also has a rich ecosystem of contributors, tests, and resources to make sure you can learn, report bugs, and contribute.