Open up new reporting options for your SQL Server with these PowerShell tips.

Let me explain. Traditionally, SQL Distributed Management Objects (DMO) and SMO have been complicated enough to code that many DBAs stayed away from them.

Obtain information about database objects and the database as a whole. Gives information about the roles and users of an application. You can use the str () function to operate on a character or ...

What Is Sql Server Business Intelligence Edition? Database management and business intelligence software solution, Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence (BI) Edition is designed to work at all ...

Read SQL Server 101 and learn more about SQL Server’s architecture and management basics. This useful guide also covers working with the SQL Server optimizer and execution plans. Learn more.

But not everyone has VB skills, and writing SMO (SQL Server Management Objects) is neither easy nor intuitive. PowerShell allows you to script a database in just 21 characters of code and schedule ...

SQLSERVER:\SQL This provider houses all of the basic objects: databases, tables, stored procedures, views, etc. SQLSERVER:\SQLPolicy This exposes all of the SQL Server Policy Based Management objects.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the principal interface for working with Microsoft SQL Server. However, many subtleties of this powerful tool evade even the most seasoned professionals.

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