SQL Server Management Studio can help take the guesswork out of creating connection strings for PowerShell applications.

This book aims to introduce you to PowerShell and how it can be used with SQL Server. How well does it do it? PowerShell is Microsoft’s preferred scripting tool, useful for task automation and ...

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...

As today’s database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...