In this article, I wanted to discuss the PowerShell (PoSh) pipeline, which was confusing to me at first and took some time to get used to working with. I had used one in Linux before, but the PoSh one is more powerful, but also slightly different. Hopefully I can demystify some of the concepts for […]
2026-01-07 (first published: 2020-12-31)
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One of the features in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) that I find very useful is to have a list of registered servers and databases in SSMS. This lets me quickly pick from a number of servers rather than flipping the drop down in the connection dialog. This post looks at this feature and how […]
2024-07-31
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This article shows how to import and export a list of registered servers from SSMS.
2024-04-29
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Learn about more of the T-SQL language changes in SQL Server 2022. This article is the third in a series and will cover the changes to the JSON functions.
2022-12-30
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Building on his last article, Frank shows how to add parameters to your stored procedure calls from PoSh.
2022-12-23 (first published: 2020-08-20)
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Learn about more of the T-SQL language changes in SQL Server 2022 to LTRIM, RTRIM, TRIM, GET_BIT, SET_BIT, LEFT_SHIFT, RIGHT_SHIFT, BIT_COUNT and more.
2022-09-30
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SQL Server 2022 is in preview in August 2022. I assume this version will be released later this year, and I have been testing it with the idea that I will be looking at an upgrade sometime in the next year for a few servers. There are a lot of changes in the database platform, […]
2022-08-31
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This next article in the PowerShell Day by Day Series will cover adding help to your scripts.
2021-09-29
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Learn how you can add parameters to your PowerShell scripts to make them more flexible and useful.
2021-07-21
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In one of my articles, Calling Procs from PowerShell with Parameters, there was a question in the discussion about calling PowerShell (PoSh) from SQL Agent Jobs. I haven't done much of that, as most of my PowerShell is interactive scripts to make work easier when managing lots of servers. However, it was an interesting challenge, […]
2020-11-30
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