I have asp.net mvc application, for which database connection string is placed in Environment variable DbConn as
Min Pool Size=20;Application Name=***;**initial catalog=*****;server=***;Integrated Security=True;
Now my question is how to read this connection string using Powershell script. I know how to read the entire connection string Get-ChildItem Env:DBConn,but I need a portion of it like the initial catalog,server etc.
Please guide me in resolving this.
You could parse and tokenize the connection string with -split, Trim() and a hashtable:
$DBConnValues = @{}
$env:DBConn.Trim(";") -split ";" |ForEach-Object {
$key,$value = $_ -split "="
$DBConnValues[$key] = $value
}
Now you can access each property by name:
PS C:\> $DBConnValues["Server"]
ServerName
This would be a perfect case for ConvertFrom-StringData so that you can make it into a custom object.
$props = $env:DBConn -replace ";","`r`n" | ConvertFrom-StringData
$dbConn = New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property $props
ConvertFrom-StringData wants a string where each line is a key value pair. We get just that by replacing the semicolons with newlines. It returns a hashtable which we feed to New-object to get a custom PowerShell object. Then you can use the new object like you would any in PowerShell.
$dbConn."Min Pool Size"
