Before you can document your SQL Server environment with SQL Power Doc you'll to meet the following requirements: Permissions - SQL Power Doc makes connections to standalone SQL Server instances using ...

DECLARE @agname SYSNAME, @listnername VARCHAR(128), @primaryserver VARCHAR(128), @agserverlist VARCHAR(MAX), @agdblist VARCHAR(MAX); INNER JOIN master.sys.availability_replicas Replicas ON ...

When I (along with many other people) had a lot of trouble trying to install SQL Server Management Studio in an attempt to switch from the SQL Server 2008 R2 evaluation to the free Express version, I ...

Throughout this series of posts there have been a number of examples of how to use the SQL Server PowerShell provider. However, these were always in context with a specific task (i.e. automating ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...

I've been working with SQL Server for over 20 years now, Generally, I limit my tools to the things I might expect to find in a given client environment. My toolbox typically includes the tools that ...