MCPmag

How To Quickly Test a SQL Connection with PowerShell

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...
Redmond Magazine

Using PowerShell To Back Up SQL Server Express Edition

For as long as I can remember, I have always configured the computers within my own organization to store data on network servers as opposed to the data being stored on workstations. That way, if one ...
Redmond Magazine

PowerShell-Based SQL Server Backups Revisited, Part 2

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...
Ars Technica

Powershell. SQL Query. How to determine if a query returns no results?

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 minutes ...
InfoWorld

When you should and shouldn’t use PowerShell in SQL Server

Then you just query for the groups you need and you’re fine. Use PowerShell when you have many scripts to deploy. Use PowerShell if you have a hard time remembering the SQL cursor syntax or think it’s ...
Ars Technica

Powershell and SQL Server 2014: Why Does It Hate sa?

$con = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection("Server=10.110.0.251;Database=BackupDB;User ID=sa;Password=P@ssword1!;connect Timeout=30") $con.open() $instance ...