You've automated the SQL database backup process; now, let's restore in auto mode. Here's how to do it with PowerShell. In my last post, I demonstrated a script that can execute backups for a server.

IT pros these days tend to wear many hats and handle seemingly random tasks on a daily basis. At any given time, you may find yourself dealing with an angry user about an Outlook problem, while ...

PowerShell is not just an application, it is a scripting language built on .Net CLR that automates IT tasks. It has backward compatibility with CMD and can automate simple or complex tasks. Because of ...

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.

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 ...

Let’s face it: working on the administrative side of IT can involve a lot of tedious, repetitive tasks. Manually configuring user accounts, troubleshooting the same issues over and over, generating ...

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Windows is ubiquitous, yet not even most system administrators know how easy it is to use scripting to automate it. The 2024 Windows PowerShell Certification Bundle is a collection of six courses that ...

Yesterday, at its Business Applications Summit 2020, Microsoft announced a bunch of new updates for Power BI. The firm also released the April feature overview for the desktop version of the service, ...