In powershell I use foreach to run a function through a list of targets. I was wondering that if there is any thing similar to foreach in sql, so I can run the same query through multiple DBs I chose and save the results to one csv file?
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Log in to answerBest Answer · By JanBask MS SQL Server Expert
Answered on Apr 20, 2021
You can do this in T-SQL, PowerShell is still viable and potentially a lot easier, especially when you leverage dbatools. You can use Get-DbaDatabase to not only get the databases but also easily filter out problematic ones you probably don't want to execute against (system dbs, offline dbs, etc): Get-DbaDatabase -Status 'Normal' -ExcludeSystem -OnlyAccessible And then run Invoke-DbaQuery to run your command against each of the databases returned.
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