Important On Azure SQL Managed Instance, most, but not all SQL Server Agent features are currently supported. See Azure SQL Managed Instance T-SQL differences from SQL Server for details. The ...

This works for Cloud SQL. That being said, the way to make that work with DSC is quite hacky : you have to specify the network protocol in the ServerName argument (tcp:server-name) and the port in the ...

I'm trying to start/stop MS SQL Service on various DB servers (locally) but we don't always know the name of the instance (Always only 1 SQL Server running on a single server).

After reboot, you will be able start SQL Server and connect from client machines using Named Pipes 7. Take a backup and delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1 ...