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PowerShell<br />

Chapter 2: Tools of the Trade<br />

PowerShell is a new feature with <strong>SQL</strong> <strong>Server</strong> <strong>2008</strong>. PowerShell serves as an extremely robust scripting<br />

and server-navigation engine. Using PowerShell, the user can navigate all objects on the server as<br />

though they were part of a directory structure in the file system. (You even use the dir and cd style<br />

commands you use in a command window.)<br />

PowerShell is well outside the scope of a beginning title, but it is important to realize that it’s there. It is<br />

covered in more depth in Professional <strong>SQL</strong> <strong>Server</strong> <strong>2008</strong> Programming.<br />

Summary<br />

Most of the tools that you’ve been exposed to here aren’t ones you’ll use every day. Indeed, for the average<br />

developer, only <strong>SQL</strong> <strong>Server</strong> Management Studio will get daily use. Nevertheless it’s important to<br />

have some idea of the role that each one can play. Each has something significant to offer you. We will<br />

see each of these tools again in our journey through this book.<br />

Note that there are some other utilities available that don’t have shortcuts on your Start menu (connectivity<br />

tools, server diagnostics, and maintenance utilities), which are mostly admin related.<br />

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