I've used PowerShell to administer and manage Microsoft SQL Server for quite some time although I haven't blogged much about it. I thought I would take the time to write a series of blog articles about using PowerShell to administer and manage Microsoft SQL Server to help others who are just getting started and to …

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I need a few Active Directory users created in my mikefrobbins.com test environment so I thought why come up with fake information when I could use information that I already have in a SQL Server database? The Employees table in the Northwind database looks like an easy enough candidate since all the data I need is in …

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This blog article is a scenario that I sent a coworker a while back about recovering a SQL Server database up to the point in time where a catastrophic hard disk drive failure occurs for the hard drive containing a SQL Server database. The transaction log for this database is on a separate physical disk and is still …

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