How can i retrieve username and password when retrieving Azure Database details via Powershell? - azure

Question

I can list Azure databases as follows:
$servers = Get-AzSqlServer
foreach($server in $servers)
{
$databases = Get-AzSqlDatabase -ServerName $server.ServerName -ResourceGroupName
$server.ResourceGroupName
foreach($db in $databases){
Write-Host "Server " $db.ServerName "Database " $db.DatabaseName
$server.SqlAdministratorLogin "SqlAdminPwd "
$server.SqlAdministratorPassword
Invoke-SqlCmd -ServerInstance $db.ServerName -Database $db.DatabaseName -
Username <azuredb_admin_username> -Password
<azuredb_admin_password> -Query
'select * from [dbo].[TableName]'
}
}
$server.SqlAdministratorPassword is empty which is understandable.
But in the next line I invoke a sqlcmd which requires the password.
How can i get and use the password ?

Answer 1

PowerShell query should require login credential implicitly or explicitly through the command line. There are couple of ways to pass credentials.
Store credentials in credentials manager and fetch the information from there
example:
$psCred = Get-StoredCredential -Target "ABCD" –AsCredentialObject
Here is the code snippet to get the password using PowerShell
$serverName = $db.ServerName
$DB = $db.DatabaseName
$credential = Get-Credential
$userName = $credential.UserName.Replace("\","")
$pass = $credential.GetNetworkCredential().password
invoke-sqlcmd -query "select ##Servername" -database $DB -serverinstance $servername -username $username -password $pass -Query 'select * from [dbo].[TableName]'
Hope this helps!