Start building on Google Cloud with $300 in free credits and 20+ always free products. Google Cloud Tools for PowerShell also lets you run various cmdlets from the gcloud CLI - you can learn more in ...

Azure SQL Managed Instance enables you to configure your instances, and pools by using Azure PowerShell. If you don't have an Azure subscription, create an Azure free account before you begin. Azure ...

This guide covers options for using PowerShell to create a SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machine (VM). For a streamlined Azure PowerShell example that relies on default values, see the SQL Server on ...

Have you ever gone through the SQL Server installation interface just by selecting the same buttons, entering the same information, and not giving it a second thought? The installation finished, but ...

There are lots of ways to create MSSQL databases via PowerShell. We could invoke a T-SQL query using the CREATE DATABASE term, we could write some code to use the [Create() method with SMO] or, if ...

Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...

In a previous article, I talked about getting started with managing SQL server using PowerShell and the Server Management Objects (SMO). While that was mostly spent making the connection and doing ...

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 ...

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 R2 evaluation to the free Express version, I ...