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SQL Server 2014 with Powershell v5 Cookbook

By : Donabel Santos
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SQL Server 2014 with Powershell v5 Cookbook

By: Donabel Santos

Overview of this book

PowerShell can be leveraged when automating and streamlining SQL Server tasks. PowerShell comes with a rich set of cmdlets, and integrates tightly with the .NET framework. Its scripting capabilities are robust and flexible, allowing you to simplify automation and integration across different Microsoft applications and components. The book starts with an introduction to the new features in SQL Server 2014 and PowerShell v5 and the installation of SQL Server. You will learn about basic SQL Server administration tasks and then get to know about some security-related topics such as the authentication mode and assigning permissions. Moving on, you will explore different methods to back up and restore your databases and perform advanced administration tasks such as working with Policies, Filetables, and SQL audits. The next part of the book covers more advanced HADR tasks such as log shipping and data mirroring, and then shows you how to develop your server to work with BLOB, XML, and JSON. Following on from that, you will learn about SQL Server's BI stack, which includes SSRS reports, the SSIS package, and the SSAS cmdlet and database. Snippets not specific to SQL Server will help you perform tasks quickly on SQL servers. Towards the end of the book, you will find some useful information, which includes a PowerShell tutorial for novice users, some commonly-used PowerShell and SQL Server syntax, and a few online resources. Finally, you will create your own SQL Server Sandbox VMs. All these concepts will help you to efficiently manage your administration tasks.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Killing a blocking process


This recipe illustrates how you can kill a blocking process in SQL Server.

Getting ready

In order to see blocking processes in your list, we will have to force some blocking queries. If you have already done the prep work in the Listing running/blocking processes section, you do not need to do this prep section. If you haven't, go ahead and perform the following steps:

  1. Open SQL Server Management Studio and connect to the instance you want to test. We will assume you have AdventureWorks2014. If not, you can use a different database and table altogether.

  2. Open two new query windows for that connection. Type and run the following in the two query windows:

    USE AdventureWorks2014
    GO
    
    BEGIN TRAN
    SELECT *
    FROM dbo.ErrorLog
    WITH (TABLOCKX)

How to do it...

These are the steps to kill a blocking SQL Server process in PowerShell:

  1. Open PowerShell ISE as administrator.

  2. Import the SQLPS module and create a new SMO Server object:

    #import SQL Server module
    Import-Module SQLPS -DisableNameChecking...