A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, ...

which allows you to load some assemblies to be able to connect to a SQL server and then explore the server and its database and tables like you would any other object in PowerShell. This really opens ...

As I have recently discovered though, you can use a PowerShell script to back up a SQL Server Express database. Before I show you how to perform such a backup, there are a few things that you ...

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, let's take a look at a few tips and tricks ...

PowerShell is one of the coolest new things to come out of Microsoft in a long while, and it’s going to do more for server admin than anything else. That doesn’t mean, though, that it’s ...

I have confirmed the sa user's password twice. Stuff in use: Windows Server 2008 R2 and a just-installed instance of SQL Server 2014. Now, when I installed it, it asked me if I wanted to use ...

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 ...

that PowerShell is quite extensible and allows you to build your own object explorer and directed me to the SQL ISE, part of the SQL Server PowerShell Extensions CodePlex project (SQLPSX). So I ...