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, ...

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 ...

There are lots of ways to create MSSQL databases via PowerShell. We could invoke a T-SQL query using the CREATE DATABASE term, we could write some code to use the [Create() method with SMO] or, if ...

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 ...

I need to use a GUI SQL Query builder in a demo in the near future. Is there a decent, open-source one that generates plain ANSI SQL? Preferably through ODBC, but JDBC might work as well. The folks ...