PowerShell offers a lightweight and efficient solution for backing up SQL Server Express databases on local workstations without the need for full system backups.

Q&A Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database By David Ramel 01/23/2025 Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, ...

Learn how to leverage configuration files to customize PowerShell scripts, including language, formatting and display settings, in this conclusion to a three-part series.

Here is how you can check if Files and Folders exist using PowerShell. PowerShell has a built-in Test-Path cmdlet that you can run as a script file.

Generates a schema-only, read-only copy of a database using DBCC CLONEDATABASE to investigate performance issues related to the query optimizer. Learn more.

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

Get-ADUser PowerShell Command. Export to CSV command. Export specific user attributes. To bulk import users into Active Directory using PowerShell, below are the required steps: Create a CSV file ...

This PowerShell module contains two functions that are useful for exporting large amounts of data from tables, views, or queries on an (Azure) SQL Server database into CSV files compliant with the RFC ...

In this article, author Deepak Vohra discusses the details of migrating an on-prem database to a MySQL database on the cloud, using AWS Database Migration Service.

This is about using publicly available software (like database clients or NuGet packages) and a few lines of PowerShell code to show database administrators how to work with PowerShell. The basic idea ...