PowerShell Providers, which enables a simple navigation mechanism similar to file system paths. You can build paths similar to file system paths, where the drive is associated with a SQL Server ...

By Joshua Jones 01/18/2010 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.

PowerShell vs. SQL Server Management Studio When I (along with many other people) had a lot of trouble trying to install SQL Server Management Studio in an attempt to switch from the SQL Server 2008 ...

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.

PowerShell is one of the coolest new things to come out of Microsoft in a long while, and it’s going to do more for server admin than anything else. That doesn’t mean, though, that it’s ...

PowerShell expert Chad Miller commented (on VisualStudioMagazine.com another site hosting my blog) that PowerShell is quite extensible and allows you to build your own object explorer and directed me ...

Figure 6. We have really just dipped our toe into the water that is using SMO with PowerShell to explore and report on various portions of SQL server and its database and tables. We can also do things ...

The SQL Server PowerShell Hierarchy Products whose data or object models can be represented in a hierarchy use Windows PowerShell providers to expose the hierarchies. The hierarchy is exposed by using ...