For SQLPS, you'll need to install the SQL Server 2008 Client tools at the very least. Beyond just the command line, there's also a scripting tool, called powershell_ise.exe (see Fig. 1).

Note that I am running SQL Server 2014 so depending on your version ... talks on the topics of WSUS and PowerShell as well as runspaces to PowerShell user groups. He is an Honorary Scripting Guy, and ...

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

part of the SQL Server PowerShell Extensions CodePlex project (SQLPSX). So I checked it out and learned that "SQLPSX consists of 13 modules with 163 advanced functions, 2 cmdlets and 7 scripts for ...

SQLSERVER:\SQLPolicy This exposes all of the SQL Server Policy ... drive to your PowerShell profile (which I'll talk about some other time). Now, when using this provider in a script, you can ...

Use PowerShell to script objects on a schedule or in a special order. Use PowerShell if you need to switch between windows and SQL commands or even share data between the two. It’s much easier ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...

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 ...

Step one in planning and prioritizing server-hardware upgrades is inventorying ... it’s also a perfect job for PowerShell. Frequently the hardest part of using WMI is finding the right class ...

SQL Server and Exchange Server. Below, find out how to sync your WSUS server with Microsoft update, how to query all the computers your WSUS server is managing and how to use PowerShell commands in ...