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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using this template we can configure settings to optimize our SQL Server on Windows by the help of powershell scripts. Configure-Windows-Firewall-SQL-Ports.ps1 is used to to Configure Firewall Rules ...

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 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 ...