Clone A SQL Server Software Installation

Cloning is perhaps not the right term to use here but let us pretend that it is and keep going. Let us say that you want to install SQL Server on another host say NewHost but you want it to have the same settings as another host/instance on say ModelHost. In fact, let us say …

PowerShell: Save Millions By Downgrading Your SQL Server Edition & Partially Automate It!

This is one of those fresh ideas I wish I had but in reality it did not occur to me until it came down to me for execution from above me. Good job managers! Kudos. Sorry, I did not come-up with this! Execution: "I can do really well and you have got the best". I …

PowerShell – Working With SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) – Get/Set Data Sources & Deploy Reports

I am working on a DevOps deployment tool to automate all DB infrastructure related deployments (in PowerShell). It has a SSRS side to it besides other components. i.e., SSRS reports have to be deployed. The functions at a high level In this post, I want to publish a few functions that I created around SSRS. They …