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PowerShell for SQL Server Essentials

You're reading from   PowerShell for SQL Server Essentials Manage and monitor SQL Server administration and application deployment with PowerShell

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784391492
Length 186 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Donabel Santos Donabel Santos
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Preface 1. Getting Started with PowerShell FREE CHAPTER 2. Using PowerShell with SQL Server 3. Profiling and Configuring SQL Server 4. Basic SQL Server Administration 5. Querying SQL Server with PowerShell 6. Monitoring and Automating SQL Server A. Implementing Reusability with Functions and Modules Index

Current SQL Server instances

You should also check how many SQL Server instances are installed on the server and their names for non-default instances. To do this, we can use SQL Management Objects (SMO) with PowerShell and then use the ServerInstances member property:

#below should be a single line of code
$managedComputer = New-Object "Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Wmi.ManagedComputer" $servername

#list SQL Server instances
$managedComputer.ServerInstances |
Select-Object Name, State, ServerProtocols, Urn |
Format-List

The preceding script simply lists the instances installed. Note that MSSQLSERVER is the name you'll see for a default instance:

Current SQL Server instances
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