How to determine the database mirroring role via Powershell?

Question

Is there a way to determine the current mirroring role of a database via Powershell without the use of t-sql?
With the Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo namespace and database class I can determine the status, witness and partner of the mirrored database, but I can't determine the mirroring role of the current database. I basically want to get the same result
as the following t-sql query in powershell without using t-sql:
SELECT m.mirroring_role_desc 
FROM   sys.database_mirroring m JOIN sys.databases d
ON     m.database_id = d.database_id
WHERE  d.name = 'databasename'
I find it very strange that there is no class property to check for this, while it is an important property of the database. Of course I can use the output of this query in my powershell script for further processing, but I still hope that there is a property
where I can get this information.
TheSultan8

Answer 1

Just to let you know, I've already found it. Here is a part of the code that I use for checking each mirrored database what mirroring role it has:
$sqlconnection="MYLAPTOP\SQL2008R2"
$smo = New-Object ('Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server') $sqlconnection
$mirroreddbs=$smo.Databases | where {$_.IsMirroringEnabled -eq "True"}
$sqlversionmajor=$smo.VersionMajor
foreach ($database in $mirroreddbs)
# Versions lower than SQL 2008 can't query a database in recovery mode
if ($sqlversionmajor -ge 10) 
$dbrolevalue=$database.DatabaseOptions.Properties | where {$_.Name -eq "MirroringRole"}
$dbrole=$dbrolevalue.Value
One catch though, this only works on SQL 2008 and higher version.
TheSultan8