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 ...

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 ...

Throughout this series of posts there have been a number of examples of how to use the SQL Server PowerShell provider. However, these were always in context with a specific task (i.e. automating ...

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 minutes ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...

$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 ...

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 ...