PowerShell gives DBAs a reason to begin using SMO for real, so now we'll find out about all the gory details I was talking to a good friend at Microsoft last week, telling him about the problems I’ve ...

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 ...

The paths implemented by the [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] provider enable easily and interactively reviewing all of the objects in an instance of SQL Server. You can navigate the paths using Windows ...

Last time we discussed creating a script that can retrieve configuration settings from a list of SQL Servers and placing that data into a SQL Server table. Now, let's take a look at another technology ...

description Learn how to use the Generate and Publish Scripts Wizard to create Transact-SQL scripts for multiple objects, and how to use the Script as menu in Object Explorer to generate scripts for ...