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SQL Server books

A couple of SQL Server books that I would recommend having been involved with both of them. First up is SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action by Rod College (Manning - http://www.manning.com/colledge/ ) which I reviewed several times before publication...

SQL Server autoclose

Buck Woody blogged about SQL Server autoclose and how it should be set to being off  - http://blogs.msdn.com/buckwoody/archive/2009/06/24/sql-server-best-practices-autoclose-should-be-off.aspx   I’m doing a lot with SQL Server and PowerShell...
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PowerShell for DBAs

Chad has a very interesting post on “The Value Proposition of PowerShell to DBAs” - http://chadwickmiller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!EA42395138308430!347.entry where he discusses the results of a poll of DBAs regarding PowerShell. On initial reading it...

SQLPSX 1.5

If you use PowerShell and SQL Server you should at the very least look at SQLPSX which is a big library of PowerShell functionality. Version 1.5 has just been released. See http://chadwickmiller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!EA42395138308430!315.entry for...

Compare Database Schemas

One of the great things about PowerShell is the strength of the PowerShell community. This is shown by the number of people sharing their PowerShell scripts. A good example is the script to compare the schemas of two SQL Server databases that Steven has...

SQL Server scripts

Idera have published a set of PowerShell example scripts for working with SQL Server. They can be downloaded (free) from www.idera.com Check the bottom of the products menu for PowerShell scripts. They give a good introduction to working with Powershell...

Loading SQL Server Provider

Last night at the User Group meeting I showed a script to load the required assemblies and snapins that enabled the SQL Server 2008 PowerShell provider to be accessible through a normal PowerShell session. In response to requests at the meeting the script...

SQL Server PowerShell provider

I have been looking at PowerShell in SQL Server again recently as I'm working on chapters involving PowerShell and SQL Server for a couple of books. I had had a vague understanding that the PowerShell provider could access remote machines but had...

PowerShell reading SQL Server logs

Thanks to Dmitry - http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/more-sql-cmdlets/ - and Jacob - http://mspowershell.blogspot.com/2008/09/read-transactionlog-of-sql-server-from.html - for pointing out the PowerShell cmdlets in Quest's SQL Lite Speed...

PowerShell scripts for SQL Server

I recently mentioned the PowerShell scripts for SQL Server on codeplex - http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!1602.entry There has been a new release so now you can work with Tables, Stored Procedures, Views, User Defined Data...

SQL Server 2008 RTM

SQL Server 2008 has RTM'd. It should be available for download from TechNet\MSDN. PowerShell included. Share this post : Technorati Tags: PowerShell , SQL Server 2008

PowerShell and SQL Server

Michiel Wories provides a look at some of the thinking behind PowerShell in SQL Server and future plans - http://blogs.msdn.com/mwories/archive/2008/06/25/what-no-cmdlets-sql-server-powershell.aspx Share this post : Technorati Tags: PowerShell , SQL Server