Chapter 17. Administering SQL Server 2008 with PowerShell

Windows PowerShell is Microsoft’s next-generation scripting language. More and more server-based products are being released with various levels of support for this scripting language.

This chapter provides an overview of what Windows PowerShell is and describes some of the basic features of Windows PowerShell that SQL Server 2008 users should find useful. It also presents examples that demonstrate the use of these features with SQL Server 2008.

SQL Server 2008 includes additional features to support PowerShell. The chapter also presents step-by-step examples showing how to ...

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