Microsoft's Windows PowerShell is, well, powerful, but also a bit peculiar. Here's what you need to know to get started with this robust command and scripting environment.

Windows PowerShell is a new Windows command-line shell designed especially for system administrators. The shell includes an interactive prompt and a scripting environment that can be used ...

You can use the same property syntax we talked about in my PowerShell introduction article — add a period and then the name of the property — within the where clause.

If you have been using PowerShell for a while, or even just picked it up yesterday, you have no doubt used Where-Object and ForEach-Object at some point in your scripting experience. The beauty of ...

Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...