I'm trying to start/stop MS SQL Service on various DB servers (locally) but we don't always know the name of the instance (Always only 1 SQL Server running on a single server).

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I would like some help creating a script that would ssh to a remote machine and then start the vnc server so i can connect to it.I was thinking about using applescript and then "do shell script ...