What part of the script is printing the directory information? - sql-server

Question

I have the following contents in PowerShell script (Process.ps1) that reads from SQL tables and appends results to the variables listed:
function Query($Query) {
$SqlConnection = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection
$SqlConnection.ConnectionString = "Server=$Server;Initial Catalog=$Database;Integrated Security=SSPI"
$SqlCmd = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand
$SqlCmd.Connection = $SqlConnection
$SqlCmd.CommandText = $Query
$SqlAdapter = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter
$SqlAdapter.SelectCommand = $SqlCmd
$DataSet = New-Object System.Data.DataSet
$a=$SqlAdapter.Fill($DataSet)
$SqlConnection.Close()
$DataSet.Tables[0]
}
$Result = Query "SELECT * from [$cubeTable]" | Out-GridView -Wait;
$CUBE = Query "SELECT [cube_name] FROM [$cubeTable] WHERE [cube_name] = '$CUBE_input'" | Select -ExpandProperty cube_name;
$Destination_Server = Query "SELECT [destination_server] FROM [$cubeTable] WHERE [cube_name] = '$CUBE'" | Select -ExpandProperty destination_server;
$BasePath = Query "SELECT [variable_value] FROM [$pathTable] WHERE [variable_name] = 'base_path'" | Select -ExpandProperty variable_value;
$jsonPath = Join-Path -Path $BasePath -ChildPath $jsonDirectory
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $jsonPath
$JSON_file = Join-Path $jsonPath $CUBE |
%{ ($_ + ".json") }
$processPATH = Join-Path -Path $BasePath -ChildPath $process_output_Directory
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $processPATH
$process_output = Join-Path $processPATH $CUBE |
%{ ($_ + ".txt") }
$autosysPATH = Join-Path -Path $BasePath -ChildPath $AUTOSYS_output_Directory
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $autosysPATH
$process_AUTOSYS_output = Join-Path $autosysPATH $CUBE |
%{ ($_ + "_process.txt") }
When I run the script in CMD through a batch file, it runs great as it should, however, it's outputting these directory information somewhere from the following variables:
json_file, process_output, and autosys_output
I have an output image here:
Where exactly is the writing to console happening? I don't have any echo OR a Write-Host! let alone a function to output the directories...
and its definitely not this part: $Result = Query "SELECT * from [$cubeTable]" | Out-GridView -Wait; because I commented it out and it still outputted the directories info as the screenshot shows.

Answer 1

New-Item returns the created FileInfo or DirectoryInfo object. That's what you're seeing in your output. PowerShell default output formating just merges similar consecutive objects to provide more compact output, so you're getting a single table instead of three separate tables with one object each.
You can suppress the output by adding | Out-Null to the New-Item statements:
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $jsonPath | Out-Null
Other options would be capturing the output in a variable or using redirection (> $null).