Functionality covered includes finding our server properties, disk utilization, discover sql instance in network, find license keys, setup mail profile, setup dba operator, get backup history, audit ...

Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...

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. To wrap up this series of PowerShell articles, ...

I've been working with SQL Server for over 20 years now, Generally, I limit my tools to the things I might expect to find in a given client environment. My toolbox typically includes the tools that ...

As was just mentioned, PowerShell within SQL runs Version 2. If you were unaware that you could run PowerShell from within SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), right-click on a folder, and select ...

Having spent the last article showing how we can use WMI to perform a query for the current space on a drive, we need to take a it a step forward and begin tracking this data in a way that we can then ...