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 ...
PowerShell gives DBAs a reason to begin using SMO for real, so now we'll find out about all the gory details I was talking to a good friend at Microsoft last week, telling him about the problems I’ve ...
The paths implemented by the [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] provider enable easily and interactively reviewing all of the objects in an instance of SQL Server. You can navigate the paths using Windows ...
Seed discovery of a deleted platform pack may continue to work on the pool nodes An error may occur when an operating system pack was deleted, but its seed discovery ...
Throughout this series of posts there have been a number of examples of how to use the SQL Server PowerShell provider. However, these were always in context with a specific task (i.e. automating ...
Last time we discussed creating a script that can retrieve configuration settings from a list of SQL Servers and placing that data into a SQL Server table. Now, let's take a look at another technology ...