Michiel Wories' WebLog

When you start using the SQL Server Powershell extensions, you will find there are not a whole lot of cmdlets. The expectation is indeed that Powershell support means: cmdlets for every administrative operation you can perform. Did we miss something here? Read More...

Jeffrey Snover posted a very clear article about minishells and SQL Server's use of it: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/06/23/sql-minishells.aspx Jeffrey is Powershell's Architect, well respected in the Powershell community, and it's good Read More...

I found this ping-back on my previous blog post which gives a good overview of one very useful cmdlet that we ship with the Powershell extensions that SQL Server 2008 will deliver. A very helpful article one of the SQL Server MVPs, Lara Rubbelke , on Read More...

I am very excited that SQL Server will ship with a pretty solid first release of Powershell extensions with SQL Server 2008. The SQL Server Powershell extensions deliver on a vision that we’ll expand on in the next releases to come. So what’s in this release of SQL Server Powershell? Read More...

Euan pointed me to an interesting article about the use of Monad together with SMO . Those who know me well, know I am somewhat of a scripting biggot and still install Cygwin on all of my boxes as I cannot live without bash, awk, perk, sed, expr and the Read More...