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.

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 ...

Microsoft's premade templates allows for the deployment of SQL databases without having to use complex PowerShell commands.

Microsoft removes the version still included for compatibility for good. It has long been considered obsolete.

Figure 2. Successful Azure PowerShell Connection Output. Although this next step might have been set for other reasons, you must have a server firewall rule setup to allow incoming SQL connections ...

Use PowerShell to script objects on a schedule or in a special order. Use PowerShell if you need to switch between windows and SQL commands or even share data between the two.

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 ...

Stuff in use: Windows Server 2008 R2 and a just-installed instance of SQL Server 2014. Now, when I installed it, it asked me if I wanted to use Windows Authentication only, to which I said, "sure ...