Using Powershell to understand a replication topology
I recently had to investigated a client replication topology. I needed to understand the publications, subscribers and the articles. The problems I was facing were as follows: The replication topology was only defined on the production infrastructure. There was no documentation about the replication topology. I had no way of being able re-create replication topology. Only short amount of time. I was able to script the replication topology from the SQL Server Management Studio. This was partially helpful as I now had a script which could be used to review the replication topology. However this end up being a fairly large file and would be time consuming to review all information. So I deicide to write a PowerShell, SQL Server Powershell for the Invoke-Sqlcmd commandlet, that would do the following steps: Parse the file to find the lines containing the following store procedures: sp_addarticle. sp_addsubscription. As theses contain