Sql-server – How to have SQL Server’s SQL Agent pick up a new Powershell module

Since you are using SQL Server 2008 R2 you can simply create your SQL Agent Job with the step configured as a "PowerShell" type, instead of trying to use the CmdExec. You only need to include the "meat" of your script. Since you are using the PowerShell type of a SQL Agent step it has already called the powershell.exe and imported the SQLPS module for you. So an example:

With your code I believe you can simply configure the step as shown below:

This is a not very intuitive and I was never able to find anything concrete on the explanation [e.g. no exact BOL or white paper was found].

The syntax error in the SQL Agent job is a T-SQL syntax error based on User Tokens. So that basically means that a PowerShell Sub-Expression Operator is treated as a Token to SQL Server Agent. So in PowerShell this $( ) appears to be treated as reserved character sequence for SQL Server Agent. So SQL Agent would be looking for something like this T-SQL example from the BOL article referenced: PRINT N'Current database name is $(A-DBN)' ; .

So in my script when it reached ,@DriveLetter = '$($c.DriveLetter)', the "$c.DriveLetter" is not one of the tokens allowed.

The workaround to this is simply to not use sub-expression statements in PowerShell. I would make the adjustments in my script so this:

$qAddServerDiskSpace = @"
EXEC [dbo].[StoredProcInsert]
    @ServerName = '$($c.ServerName)'
    ,@DriveLetter = '$($c.DriveLetter)'
    ,@DiskSpaceCapacityGB = $($c.DiskSpaceCapacityGB)
    ,@DiskFreeSpaceGB = $($c.DiskFreeSpaceGB)
"@

would have to be modified to something like this:

$severName = $c.ServerName
$driveLetter = $c.DriveLetter
$capacityGB = $c.DiskSpaceCapacityGB
$freeGB = $c.DiskFreeSpaceGB

$qAddServerDiskSpace = @"
EXEC [dbo].[StoredProcInsert]
   @ServerName = '$serverName'
   ,@DriveLetter = '$driveLetter'
   ,@DiskSpaceCapacityGB = $CapacityGB
   ,@DiskFreeSpaceGB = $freeGB
"@

Made the above adjustments to my script and it runs perfectly now.