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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Use PowerShell when you have many scripts to deploy. Use PowerShell if you have a hard time remembering the SQL cursor syntax or think it’s just too much trouble to manage for simple ops, such as ...

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...

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 ...

Most of my databases are built with SQL Express. I have the free copy of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2008 for directly querying databases. Do you know if this snap-in is included with the SSMS ...

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 ...

Another good example is adding user permissions to all the schemas in a database. You can code this in T-SQL, but T-SQL requires the inclusion of unsafe dynamic SQL code inside a cursor. You can ...

PowerShell is going to change how DBAs manage their environment, because it allows you to do complicated things so much easier than in Visual Basic or T-SQL. Let’s take an example of scripting ...