Figure 6. We have really just dipped our toe into the water that is using SMO with PowerShell to explore and report on various portions of SQL server and its database and tables. We can also do things ...

By Joshua Jones 01/18/2010 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.

In a previous article, I talked about getting started with managing SQL server using PowerShell and the Server Management Objects (SMO). While that was mostly spent making the connection and doing ...

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 ...

SQLSERVER:\SQL This provider houses all of the basic objects: databases, tables, stored procedures, views, etc. SQLSERVER:\SQLPolicy This exposes all of the SQL Server Policy Based Management objects.

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 Windows Authentication only, to which I said, "sure!" ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

PowerShell expert Chad Miller commented (on VisualStudioMagazine.com another site hosting my blog) that PowerShell is quite extensible and allows you to build your own object explorer and directed me ...

PowerShell vs. SQL Server Management Studio 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 ...