One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...

We've been looking at ways you can leverage and extend all the PowerShell knowledge you've gleaned over the course of this column. I want to wrap up with a peek at what you can do with SQL Server 2008 ...

Does anyone know how, once terminal'd into a Unix box (I know very little about navigating Unix), I can execute a sql statement against the informix database installed on the system?<BR><BR>SQL Server ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...