DBAs and PowerShell - a match made in heaven

PowerShell is apowerful tool. (See what I did there?) You can use it to configure your environment and essentially automate your life. So why is it important for DBAs (in our case, SQL admins) to learn PowerShell and what can it do? Well, I'm glad you asked, becausewe were preparedforsuch an occasion:

1. Create Useful Tools
   With PowerShell, you can create useful tools that provide functionality that you'd usually have to purchase - anything from your own SQL object dependency viewer or database graphs.
2. Automate Repetitive Tasks
   Make your time a little more productive by minimizing those repetitive tasks that you end up spending 90% of your time on.
3. Multi-Server Automation
   Have a ton of SQL servers/engines on your network? With PowerShell, you can collect info from all of them! By executing a query, you can retrieve properties or even update...