What do you use for creating admin utilities

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What do you use for creating admin utilities

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August 29, 2012 at 5:48 am

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I moving in to more SQL Server support coming from UNIX based Sybase. When coding administartive utility code ouside of provided interfaces, I generally use a cobination of shell scripts,isql and and some Perl. What tends to be the most popular methods for supporting SQL Server. Scripting/Programming/Other tools?

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398909 More actions · Answer 1

The vast majority is done through the provided interfaces and T-SQL. But if you're really interesting in automating administration of the servers and instances, PowerShell is your bestest friend in the world.

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Alan Burstein SSC Guru Points: 61141 More actions · Answer 2

I concur 100% with grant. You can do a ton with TSQL, use Powershell for stuff you cant do with TSQL.

Redgate tools are awesome too: The comparison utilities (schema and data compare) have helped a ton lately.

"I cant stress enough the importance of switching from a sequential files mindset to set-based thinking. After you make the switch, you can spend your time tuning and optimizing your queries instead of maintaining lengthy, poor-performing code."

-- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 3

To wit, I use xp_CmdShell to call Powershell. 😉

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RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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