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Phil Factor Automated Script-generation with Powershell and SMO
by Phil Factor | 03 February 2012 | Not rated yet
In the first of a series of articles on automating the process of building, modifying and copying SQL Server databases, Phil Factor demonstrates how one can generate TSQL scripts for databases, selected database objects, or table contents from PowerShell and SMO. Read more...
Robert Sheldon Converting String Data to XML and XML to String Data
by Robert Sheldon | 01 February 2012 | Not rated yet
We all appreciate that, in general, XML documents or fragments are held in strings as text markup. In SQL Server, XML variables and columns are instead tokenised to allow rapid access to the data within. This is fine, but can cause some odd problems, auch as... Read more...
Brad McGehee How to Document and Configure SQL Server Instance Settings
by Brad McGehee | 30 January 2012 |
Occasionally, when you install identical databases on two different SQL Server instances, they will behave in surprisingly different ways. Why? Most likely, it is down to different configuration settings. There are around seventy of these settings and the DBA needs... Read more...
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Automated Script-generation with Powershell and SMO
 In the first of a series of articles on automating the process of building, modifying and copying SQL Server... Read more...



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