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PowerShell for SQL Server Essentials

By : Donabel Santos
Book Image

PowerShell for SQL Server Essentials

By: Donabel Santos

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
PowerShell for SQL Server Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Implementing Reusability with Functions and Modules
Index

Summary


This chapter has provided a very basic introduction to PowerShell, from a brief history to environments, cmdlets, and pipelines. This should be enough to get you familiarized with PowerShell fundamentals, a skill you will need to work with the next chapters. It is also important to remember how you can learn more about PowerShell using cmdlets such as Get-Help, Get-Command, and Get-Member. The more comfortable you are looking for resources on your own, the faster and better it will be for you when it comes to learning PowerShell.

This chapter is not meant to be an exhaustive, one-stop shop for PowerShell. There are a number of excellent PowerShell books out there that dig deeper into PowerShell's technicalities, syntaxes, and advanced features.

In the next chapter, we will look at how PowerShell can be integrated with SQL Server.