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, ...

Lets say I'm going to have 50 various PowerShell scripts to do "stuff".<BR><BR>All of this work is being done for a single application and that application uses 3 different SQL Server 05 (soon to be ...

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 ...

Last time, I discussed how to get PowerShell and SQLPS up and running on your machines. And much like my dog chasing its tail, you're probably asking yourself, "Now that I have it, what do I do with ...

For as long as I can remember, I have always configured the computers within my own organization to store data on network servers as opposed to the data being stored on workstations. That way, if one ...

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 ...

$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 Powershell Script application is a Windows-based program that allows network administrators to perform tasks on multiple computers at one time. You can customize the startup functions of your ...