Microsoft Windows PowerShell Extensions for SQL Server 2012 R2

Microsoft Windows PowerShell Extensions for SQL Server 2012 R2 is a comprehensive and powerful scripting shell specially intended for administrators and developers who need to automate server administration and application deployment.

Working with SQL Server requires you a good knowledge of how databases, tables and SQL scripts function. The utility supports complex logic, thus providing SQL Server users with useful commands in order to build robust scripts. Also, it can be used to administer Microsoft server products as well.

The package includes a provider and several cmdlets that help you to quickly build PowerShell scripts so you can manage various SQL Server instances. Microsoft Windows PowerShell Extensions for SQL Server 2012 R2 comes with an intuitive mechanism whose main purpose is to navigate to instances in the exact way you do when you want to access file system paths.

It describes the preferred mechanism used for running SQL Server PowerShell components, expose the hierarchy of various SQL Server objects and  load assemblies in Windows PowerShell scripts that do not require the SQL ServerPowerShell provider.

What’s more, you have the possibility to control Windows PowerShell tab completion. Sometimes, you are required to work with a database that contains a lot of objects including views, triggers, procedures, tables and scripts. Using these three system variables that the utility comes with, namely $SqlServerMaximumTabCompletion, $SqlServerMaximumChildItems and $SqlServerIncludeSystemObjects you can manage all the details presented by tab information.

To wrap it up, Microsoft Windows PowerShell Extensions for SQL Server 2012 R2 provides you with various cmdlets that you can make use of, opens a new PowerShell session, helps you load the sqlps module and quickly manages multiple instances of SQL Server.