Redmond Magazine

PowerShell-Based SQL Server Backups Revisited, Part 2

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...
MCPmag

How To Quickly Test a SQL Connection with PowerShell

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...
MCPmag

Connecting to an Azure SQL Database with PowerShell

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...
Ars Technica

Powershell. SQL Query. How to determine if a query returns no results?

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 minutes ...
Redmond Magazine

PowerShell Based SQL Server Backups Revisited, Part 1

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 ...