Learn how to install and configure SQL Server Management Studio, download a SQL Server, and connect them on a Windows 11/10/Server computer..

Generates a schema-only, read-only copy of a database using DBCC CLONEDATABASE to investigate performance issues related to the query optimizer. Learn more.

The Prerequisite Before diving into the script, you need to ensure that the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) component “Invoke-Sqlcmd” is installed. This component is essential for executing SQL ...

Last week at work I was given a folder of 1,500 scripts – can you imagine having to open each file in Management Studio to be able to execute it?

SQL Power Doc is a collection of Windows PowerShell scripts and modules that discover, document, and diagnose SQL Server instances and their underlying Windows OS & machine configurations. NOTE: ...

SQL Server Data Tools allow you to create a single pre-deployment script and a single post-deployment script. These are not one-time migration scripts, they will run each and every time a ...

PowerShell vs. SQL Server Management Studio 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 ...

In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database.