Be sure you're careful when querying any production servers, because if you have the right credentials, you could do a lot of damage. Next time, I'll talk about how to create scripts using basic ...

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...

By Joshua Jones 01/11/2010 Throughout this series of posts there have been a number of examples of how to use the SQL Server PowerShell provider.

Microsoft's premade templates allows for the deployment of SQL databases without having to use complex PowerShell commands.

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 ...

Stuff in use: Windows Server 2008 R2 and a just-installed instance of SQL Server 2014. Now, when I installed it, it asked me if I wanted to use Windows Authentication only, to which I said, "sure!" ...