PowerShell Functions:

Recently I made a PowerShellFunctions. In a previous post I talked about one of the functions used Display-Calendar. I have since updated it to utilize the appropriate verb show. For a list of appropriate PowerShell verbs look no further than: Approved Verbs

I have recently updated it to include:

• PS-Windows-Functions
  • Sync-WindowsTime
• PS-File-Functions
  • ConvertFrom-Base64
  • ConvertTo-Base64
  • Write-CompressedFiles
• PS-Calendar-Functions
  • Show-Calendar
• PS-Structured-Query-Language-Functions
  • Get-Sql
  • Show-DatabasesWithTable
• PS-GUI-Functions
  • Set-Clipboard

PS-Windows-Functions

Sync-WindowsTime

This starts the Windows Time service and calls w32tm /resync
Why might you use such a command? Perhaps you dual boot and the time is off after rebooting.
See: KB2385818.

PS-File-Functions

ConvertTo-Base64

This takes a input and produces a Base64 string:

echo "Look of disapproval" | ConvertTo-Base64

Results in: TG9vayBvZiBkaXNhcHByb3ZhbA0K

ConvertFrom-Base64

"TG9vayBvZiBkaXNhcHByb3ZhbA0K" | ConvertFrom-Base64

Results in: Look of disapproval

Write-CompressedFiles

Takes a directoryPath and writes a zip file in the destinationFile location.

Write-CompressedFile $directoryPath $destinationFile

I use this to zip up my module directory and save to my cloud:

Write-CompressedFile $env:PSModulePath.Split(";")[0] $ExportCompressedModuleFilePath $true

PS-Calendar-Functions

Show-Calendar

Previous Blog Post

PS-Structured-Query-Language-Functions

Get-Sql

This one is probably one of my favorite functions in the library. Here is an example:

Get-Sql "mycoolserver" "mydb" "select * from widgets"

You can pipe it to something like:

Get-Sql "mycoolserver" "mydb" "select * from widgets" | Out-GridView

Or make a query that calls a query:

Get-Sql "mycoolserver" "mydb" "select serverName, databaseName from linkedServerTable" | %{Get-Sql $_.serverName $_.databaseName "Select * from Widgets"}

Hopefully your database doesn't do that, but if it does it is nice to know PowerShell can handle it.

Show-DatabasesWithTable

Sometimes you need to find a database with a specific table:

DatabasesWithTable "mycoolserver" "importantTableName"

Gives you a list of databases with the appropriate table.
As we learned from the previous example you can chain these via the pipe line so you could run a query for each database.