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 ...

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 ...

SQL Server Management Studio can help take the guesswork out of creating connection strings for PowerShell applications.

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 ...

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 ...

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.

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 ...

Select Try It in the upper-right corner of a code block. Selecting Try It doesn't automatically copy the code to Cloud Shell. Go to https://shell.azure.com, or select the Launch Cloud Shell button to ...

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 ...