Chrissy LeMaire

Belgium Belgium

Chrissy is a dual Microsoft MVP who has worked in IT for over 20 years. She is the creator of the popular SQL PowerShell module dbatools, holds a master's degree in Systems Engineering and is coauthor of Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches and the upcoming book, AI in IT.

Community Contributions

dbatools 2.0

Incredibly huge release comprised of nearly 215 Pull Requests, 39 of which were mine. Here are some highlights people may appreciate Support for SQL Server 2022 The import process should now be much faster, as it now uses compression which requires less reading from disk SSIS commands have been added back for the Windows platform functions/internal is now public/private (for devs) devcontainer now works better (for devs) geometry/geography/hierarchyid types now work for people who need them Autocomplete has been fixed, so after connecting at least once, hit tab to auto complete SqlInstance, Database, Job and more Install-DbaMultiTool now installs sp_help_revlogin Network certificate-related commands work better Sync-DbaAvailabilityGroup now shows details when -WhatIf is used Whatif output has been standardized in all Copy (and Start-DbaMigration) commands Test-DbaLastBackup now works even better for more scenarios like copying backups with multiple files Ola Hallengren's Maintenance Solution is now included which helps those with offline networks
Open source project / 04-28-2023