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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

Inserting XML into SQL Server

In this recipe, we will insert the content of some XML files into a SQL Server table that has XML columns.

Getting ready

We will create a sample table that we can use for this recipe. Run the following script in SQL Server Management Studio to create a table named SampleXML that has an XML field:

USE SampleDB
GO
IF OBJECT_ID('SampleXML') IS NOT NULL
    DROP TABLE SampleXML
GO

CREATE TABLE SampleXML
(
   ID INT IDENTITY(1, 1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
   FileName VARCHAR(200) ,
   InsertedDate DATETIME DEFAULT GETDATE() ,
   InsertedBy VARCHAR(100) DEFAULT SUSER_SNAME() ,
   XMLStuff XML ,
   FileExtension VARCHAR(50)
)

Create a directory called C:\DATA\ if it does not exist and copy the sample XML files that come with the book scripts. Alternatively, you can use your own directory and XML files.

How to do it...

These are the steps required to insert the contents of XML files into SQL Server:

  1. Open PowerShell ISE as an administrator.
  2. Import the SQLPS module as...