When I (along with many other people) had a lot of trouble trying to install SQL Server Management Studio in an attempt to switch from the SQL Server 2008 R2 evaluation to the free Express version, I ...

To wrap up this series of PowerShell articles, let's take a look at a few tips and tricks for working with PowerShell in SQL Server on a regular basis. To wrap up this series of PowerShell articles, ...

Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...

PowerShell is cool, but it's not always appropriate. Here's a quick list to help you decide when to use it PowerShell is one of the coolest new things to come out of Microsoft in a long while, and ...

Although spanking new in Katmai, Policy-Based Management already seems mature. The inclusion of PowerShell will reinvent the way DBAs manage their environments by taking complicated cursors out of ...

Although spanking new in Katmai, Policy-Based Management already seems mature. The inclusion of PowerShell will reinvent the way DBAs manage their environments by taking complicated cursors out of ...

$con = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection("Server=10.110.0.251;Database=BackupDB;User ID=sa;Password=P@ssword1!;connect Timeout=30") $con.open() $instance ...

The inclusion of PowerShell will reinvent the way DBAs manage their environments by taking complicated cursors out of management scenarios. This is the debut of PowerShell in SQL Server, and there are ...