PowerShell: Find & Replace SQL Server Stored Procedure/View/UDF/Trigger Code En Masse Based On Custom Criteria

Update April 19, 2019: Thanks to Tim (in comments), the updated script can also do find/replace in not just stored procedures but also views, UDF's and triggers. Today, a need came-up where a bunch of stored procedures had to be altered based on certain criteria. Easy way: Obviously, the easiest way would be to script …

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PowerShell – Case-insensitive String Replacement

The problem: Replace "a" with "b" case-insensitively You have a simple string and you want to replace all "a" with "b" in a case-insensitive manner. First attempt (fail): PS C:\Windows\system32> [string] $someString = 'aAaAaAaA' $SomeString.Replace('a', 'b') #Result bAbAbAbAbA What happened? The [string].Replace() method is case-sensitive Second attempt (looks like it works but not quite): PS …