I think it’s time to talk in depth about some of the most important features of PowerShell: Providers and modules. (Snap-ins have also been important, but they are being gradually phased out.) These ...

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 ...

The PowerShell community is vibrant, with many of its developers contributing new cmdlets and scripts to the open source PowerShell Core and creating PowerShell modules that automate data center ...

The Redmond-based Microsoft Corporation has successfully turned on the PowerShell Module Browser site. Earlier this month, the Microsoft Docs team announced that the PowerShell Module Browser, a web ...

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 ...

PowerShell modules help IT professionals and business owners organize multiple scripts into a single, reusable package, making code easier to manage, share and maintain. While individual scripts work ...

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.

PowerShell modules help IT professionals and business owners organize multiple scripts into a single, reusable package, making code easier to manage, share and maintain. While individual scripts work ...