Last week I presented a session on Using SMO to Manage SQL Server at SQL Connections in Orlando, Florida. This was the third major conference I've presented this session, and each time I do this session I change more demos from VB.Net to PowerShell. This time it was the demo to create a new database. The big thing about my demos is that I want ...

Last week I posted about using PowerShell and SQL Server together, and I used a SQLDataAdapter and populated a DataTable with the results. This approach is fine if what you're doing returns a reasonably small resultset, but what if you're returning millions of rows. In this case a DataTable isn't too practical, and a forward-only DataReader is ...

I've mentioned before my company manages trade shows, and we've got a series of web sites managed by an application which uses a different SQL Server database for each site, with a master database (I'll call it Global, to differentiate it from SQL Server's master database). Well, we have a number of shows which have multiple show locations, and ...