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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When creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you need to make sure your script can successfully connect to the database.

I've inherited a large, convoluted project which is suffering from very bad performance problems. I've taken a look at the TSQL and I won't have any problems finding areas to speed up, but it's ...

Manually querying V$ views or AWR is inefficient and difficult to track over the long term. Through automated s, we can ...

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 ...