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.

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

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Microsoft will remove PowerShell 2.0 from Windows starting in August, eight years after announcing its deprecation and keeping it around as an optional feature.