Microsoft SQL Server

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 clear up some common misconceptions. Just to give you a little background information about myself, I’ve worked (professionally) in a data-center environment administering and managing every version of SQL Server since 6....

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 one table. This is about the concept and not about seeing how complicated I can make this process....

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 accessible. I added the Northwind database to SQL Express on my machine, changed the recovery model to full, and then backed up the database and transaction log:...