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SQL 2008 and powershell (Sunday, January 25, 2009) - with the 2008 releases from microsoft powershell is really making its way into the mainstream. sql server 2008 ships with standard powershell as well as an add-in that provides an interesting degree of integration that will allow DBAs to write scripts that are far more generalized than T-SQL scripts. getting ready to play with it is pretty strait forward. all you

Asynchronous and remote execution with powershell 2 ctp3 (Tuesday, June 30, 2009) - An interesting feature released with the PowerShell 2 CTP3 is the ability to run background jobs consisting of arbitrary PowerShell code. In order to use this functionality you must download and install the PowerShell 2 CTP3 and the WinRM (Windows Remote Management) 2.0 CTP. Keep in mind that installing the CTP requires uninstalling previous versions of PowerShell.

SSRS scripting with RS.EXE (Tuesday, November 20, 2007) - At work we've recently deployed SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and it's been quite interesting. In general I love the product but of course as with everything there are situations where you have to do more than the management tools provide and you have to write some scripts. SSRS provides an interesting scripting facility, RS.EXE, which allows you to run VB

PowerShell 2.0 Out-GridView, ISE and ScriptCmdlets (Sunday, July 05, 2009) - In my last post I discussed the background-job and remoting systems of PowerShell 2.0. While I find those features interesting personally there are three more that I'd like to discuss that have a broader appeal: the Out-GridView CmdLet, ScriptCmdlets and the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). Note that PowerShell 2.0 is in CTP 3 at the time of writing

Scripting Your .Net Applications with IronPython (Tuesday, November 03, 2009) - At several points in my .Net development career I've had the need to make an application I wrote scriptable. Sometimes it was to provide easy product extension to customers or lower level information workers. Sometimes it was to ease maintenance of very fine grained logic that has the capacity to change frequently or unpredictably. But every time I found it to