December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
book
Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
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SQL Provider
Earlier in this chapter, the term provider was briefly introduced. The SQL team decided to implement a SQL Server provider. What this provides is a layout of the SQL object structure, which resembles that of a regular file system.
You use the SQL provider when accessing SQL Server PowerShell via SQL Server Management Studio: Depending on what object you right-click to access SQL Server PowerShell, a prompt opens in the context of that particular object. Basically, the way certain commands work is also affected by the current location within the SQL Server provider. Here are two different examples of being placed in different locations within the SQL Server provider. In the first example, the AdventureWorks2012 database was right-clicked ...