Install-DbaWhoIsActive - Use Save-DbaCommunitySoftware to download latest version?

[andreasjordan]

Summarize Functionality

Do we want to use Save-DbaCommunitySoftware to download the lastest version of sp_WhoIsActive?

At the moment, we use Save-DbaCommunitySoftware for:

• MaintenanceSolution: SQL Server Maintenance Solution created by Ola Hallengren (https://ola.hallengren.com)
• FirstResponderKit: First Responder Kit created by Brent Ozar (http://FirstResponderKit.org)
• DarlingData: Erik Darling's stored procedures (https://www.erikdarlingdata.com)

Currently, Install-DbaWhoIsActive searches for the last release and downloads that. With Save-DbaCommunitySoftware we would just get the current master branch (as there is no dev branch).

Is there a command that is similiar or close to what you are looking for?

No

Technical Details

No response

[MikeyBronowskiQ]

I did not know that command! Nice! I think it's a good idea to include the sp_WhoIsActive.

[andreasjordan]

As I just coded a release download as well (for SQLWATCH - #7891) we could also use the latest release with sp_WhoIsActive as well.
So is a release download better that a branch download? I would still vote for branch download.

[wsmelton]

From GitHub perspective the proper method is to download the release. Not all maintainers do this though so we are forced to use the branch download which has to also download the git database of that branch (the release zip doesn't have all the extra data in it).

[andreasjordan]

Thanks for the feedback. Then I will go for the release download. Will do that after the open pr in merged.