PowerShell & SQL Server: Search & Find Indexes By SchemaName, TableName, IndexName Or ColumnName Across Instances/DB’s

Necessity is the mother of new PowerShell code :-)! Today, I received an email request to get the list of all indexes in a given TableName but the requester did not specify the DatabaseName although the SQL InstanceName was specified. It would be too easy to ask the person for the DBName and script it …

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SQL Server: Compare Database Tables/Indexes/Views/SP’s etc. For Differences Across Instances

There are a bunch of tools in the market to do the database comparisons for differences but if you want to do it for free (and programmatically)  at a basic level, you could use the method outlined below. For me, this came about as a result of an user asking "So, what is different between …