How to build a connection string if "Only variable names (i.e.: $variable) may be used as the target of an assignment statement."

Question

im looping through databases on a server & building  a connection string to each database.
$SQLConn.ConnectionString = "Server=$SrvName; Database=$DBName; User ID =DBLogin; Password=myPassword;"
The problem is i get this error:
Only variable names (i.e.: $variable) may be used as the target of an assignment statement
I can put the code into an Inlinescript, but then I lose the ability to perform paralellism. Is there any way to construct the connection string in PS Workflow without using an Inlinescript?

Answer 1

Hi Winston,
Why not just wrap the InlineScript blocks in a Parallel block, to cause them to execute in parallel?
For example:
workflow foo {
parallel {
inlinescript {
start-sleep -Seconds (Get-Random -Minimum 1 -maximum 5)
"a"
inlinescript {
start-sleep -Seconds (Get-Random -Minimum 1 -maximum 5)
"b"
Sometimes outputs "a b" and sometimes outputs "b a"