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.

3 : Run in Powershell, in Administrator mode 1 - Get-ExecutionPolicy, if it is the first time you are running Powershell or if you are not sure you can run scripts. 2 - Set-ExecutionPolicy ...

I wrote this script because I had a server running SQL Server Express with a number of instances and databases, but free backup software only allows you to backup a limited number of ...

SQL Advisor PowerShell vs. SQL Server Management Studio While PowerShell doesn't duplicate the complete functionality of SSMS, it can duplicate a lot of it. By David Ramel 06/24/2011 When I (along ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hence, if you launch PowerShell from within SSMS, it will launch PowerShell and configure the session with the new SQL PowerShell module. It is advised to avoid using these EXE wrappers; they exist ...

Lets say I'm going to have 50 various PowerShell scripts to do "stuff".All of this work is being done for a single application and that application uses 3 different SQL Server 05 (soon to be 08 ...